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Tonkin attack confusion blamed on own rudder noises
Esquire interview quotes Cmdr. Ogier recounting how sonar heardings of Maddox rudder caused belief of a continuous nighttime torpedo attack. Lt Barry and Litton report sighting torpedo claims but no corroborating sonar evidence. Herrick says doubts arose and some torpedoes may have hit Turner Joy, not Maddox.
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New York
UPD
Herbert L. Ogier
Maddox
Esquire Magazine
Ogier
Turner Joy
U.S
Gulf
John J. Barry TI
Larry 0. Litton
Defense Department
Congress
Tonkin Gulf
Johnson
Vietnam
Cmdr
John J. Herrick
Herrick
Detroyers
Govermment
Litten
Robert Barnhart