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| Keywords: DESOTO patrol mission map off Vietnam 1964.png Charts showing the course of the DESOTO patrols off Vietnam in 1962-1964 DESOTO patrols DeHaven Special Operations off TsingtaO were patrols conducted by U S Navy destroyers equipped with a mobile van of signals intelligence equipment used for intelligence collection in hostile waters The destroyer USS De Haven DD-727 is the namesake for these patrols The De Haven performed the first patrol off the coast of China in April 1962 The first patrol to target North Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin was the USS Agerholm DD-826 in December 1962 The tactical purpose of the patrols in Vietnam was to intercept North Vietnamese Army intelligence and relay it to South Vietnamese Army forces With the intercepted communications the South Vietnamese were able to more effectively coordinate their raids The destroyers taking part in the DESOTO patrols in Vietnam were accompanied by air support provided by an aircraft carrier The DESOTO patrols were part of a larger scheme known as Operation 34A Run by the U S Department of Defense at the time Operation 34A or OPLAN 34Alpha was a top secret program consisting primarily of covert actions against the North Vietnamese These patrols were initially a response to the Chinese Communists' unexpected re-definition of their territorial waters to include all waters shoreward from lines drawn tangentially to and between twelve mile circles drawn around their offshore islands Official U S Navy photo http //www history navy mil/content/history/nhhc/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/s/skunks-bogies-silent-hounds-flying-fish/_jcr_content/body/image img jpg/1422551245109 jpg from the U S Navy http //www history navy mil Naval History and Heritage Command article http //www history navy mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/s/skunks-bogies-silent-hounds-flying-fish html Skunks Bogies Silent Hounds and the Flying Fish The Gulf of Tonkin Mystery 2-4 August 1964 by Robert J Hanyok 2015 U S Navy PD-USGov-Military-Navy Vietnam War in 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident | ||||
