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Article: What Really Happened in the Gulf of Tonkin?
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- The Washington Post
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- May 3, 1987
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THE UNITED STATES NAVY
AND THE VIETNAM CONFLICT
Volume II: From Military
Assistance to Combat, 1959-1965
By Edward J. Marolda and Oscar P. Fitzgerald
Government Printing Office for
The Naval Historical Center
591 pp. $22
THIS SECOND volume of the U.S. Navy's multivolume history of the
Vietnam War is bound in the same familiar rich blue buckram that has
styled official Navy histories since the Civil War and hence
resembles its predecessors. However, unlike the good old days
when-as the wizened cynical Frenchmen put it, history was a lie
agreed-on-no longer can governments after the battle simply set down
how it went and that is that.
Thus, this is an "official" history, not an ...