SHOOTING AT FLYING FISH, PART 3

Our tale continues…

The last DeSoto patrol in the Tonkin Gulf had been undertaken by USS John R. Craig (DD-885) in February-March 1964. The destroyer sailed near Hainan Island, a territory of the People’s Republic of China, then towards the Vietnamese coast, finally turning back north to Formosa. The North Vietnamese had tracked Craig as she swung south …