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Doug Hegdahl, The POW Who Pretended To Be ‘Incredibly Stupid’ To Undermine The North Vietnamese Army
U.S. Navy sailor Doug Hegdahl was knocked off of the USS Canberra in the Gulf of Tonkin by a blast from the ship's massive ...
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Fifty years since the Gulf of Tonkin incident which triggered the Vietnam war
Johnson first deployed American troops on Vietnamese soil in 1965, with an oft-forgotten clash called the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. During the presidencies of Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower ...
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This South Dakotan’s Remarkable Memory Made Him a National Hero
By playing dumb, Doug was able to outsmart an entire army and provided valuable information after being rescued.
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The USS Turner Joy’s Role in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Today, as a floating memorial, the Turner Joy stands as a testament to naval engineering and warfare—but also as a reminder of the human consequences of the decisions made in the summer of 1964.