In the sweltering heat of August 1964, the USS Maddox and Turner Joy, two U.S. destroyers patrolling the Gulf of Tonkin, sent shockwaves through the Pentagon with their frantic reports of coming under attack by North Vietnamese torpedo boats. But little did they know, it was a false alarm. Radar glitches and overactive imaginations had conjured up a non-existent enemy, sparking a chain reaction that would entangle America in the quagmire of the Vietnam War.