. "Operation \"Pierce Arrow\""@en . . . "1964-08-05Z"^^ . "Operation Pierce Arrow was a U.S. bombing campaign at the beginning of the Vietnam War.In response to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident when the destroyers USS Maddox (DD-731) and USS Turner Joy (DD-951) of the United States Navy engaged North Vietnamese ships, sustaining light damage as they gathered electronic intelligence while in the international waters of the Gulf of Tonkin, U.S.President Lyndon B."@en . .