Word: pt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...morning of Aug. 2, Maddox saw three North Vietnamese torpedo boats near Hon Me. Later that day, three PT boats closed on Maddox within clear sight of her lookouts, and kept closing, despite warning shots. The battle was on. By the time it was over, one boat was dead in the water and presumed sinking; two others were damaged by F-8 Crusader jets, called in from the U.S. aircraft carrier Ticonderoga. Maddox suffered minimal damage. The Pentagon has pictures of the action, and no one questions this part of the story. The destroyer Turner Joy, a 2,850-tonner...
...destroyers by North Vietnamese PT boats and the Senate's subsequent resolution granting President Johnson broad authority to counter aggression in Southeast Asia. The committee was to have decided last week whether to pursue the investigation farther, but in the light of the Pueblo incident, it prudently deferred a vote...
...Stop." Using international signal flags, the PT boat asked Pueblo's nationality. When she identified herself as American, the Korean boat signaled: "Heave to or I will open fire." Pueblo replied: "I am in international waters." She maintained her course at two-thirds speed (8 knots), with the PT boat never very far away. An hour later, three more North Korean vessels came slashing in from the southwest. One was a 30-knot, Soviet-built subchaser, the others 40-knot PT boats. "Follow in my wake," signaled one of the small vessels. "I have a pilot aboard." The Korean...
Still, Bucher kept his cool. After all, U.S. planes not infrequently buzz the Soviet trawlers that serve as spy ships, whooshing in at mast level and sometimes shearing off antennas. It was only when one of the Korean PT boats rigged fenders-rubber tubes and rope mats to cushion impact-and began backing toward Pueblo's bow that Bucher realized what was happening; in the bow of the PT boat stood an armed boarding party. "These guys are serious," the skipper radioed his home port, U.S. Navy headquarters in Yokosuka, Japan. "They mean business...
...reported that she had been "requested" to steam into Wonsan, a deep-draft port used by many Soviet submariners in preference to Vladivostok, where the continental shelf forces them to cruise uncomfortably close to the surface. At 2:32 p.m., barely 2½ hours after the first Communist PT boat hove into view, came Pueblo's last message. Engines were "all stop," Bucher reported; he was "going...