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1964 -
2
August: "Tonkin Gulf
Incident"; USS Maddox attacked by North
Vietnamese torpedo boats
4
August: USS C. Turner Joy
similarly attacked
5
August: Aircraft from the USS Ticonderoga
and USS Constellation attack North
Vietnamese naval bases and other military targets
in retaliation
1965 -
7
February: Carrier aircraft from
the US Seventh Fleet make their first large-scale
strikes against ground targets in North Vietnam
1966 -
June:
US Navy's Task Force 115 ("Market Time")
begins patrolling coastal areas to prevent resupply
of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces by sea
1968 -
30
September: USS New Jersey,
the world's last active battleship, begins
bombardment of Communist positions in and near the
DMZ, firing 3,000+ rounds of 16in (406mm) and appx.
7,000 rounds rounds of 5in (127mm) in October-November |
1969 -
April-May: USS
New Jersey returns to the United States;
decommissioned (again) in August
1970 -
21-22
November: Aircraft from USS Ranger
and USS Hancock make first carrier strikes
on North Vietnam since October 1968
1972 -
3
April: USS Kitty Hawk is
first of four additional carriers to join the two
operational off Vietnam; by October, the Seventh
Fleet is operating USS Midway, USS America, USS
Kitty Hawk, USS Saratoga, USS Oriskany and
USS Enterprise simultaneously
15
April: US carrier aircraft
strike Haiphong, damaging Soviet freighters
11
May: Following an announcement
by President Nixon on 8 May, the Seventh Fleet
establishes close blockade of North Vietnam, whose
harbors are mined
1973 -
Following the ceasefire
agreement of January, the last US troops leave Vietnam |
