Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club

Size: 1.75'' 
 Shape: Round 
 Finish: Bronze with enamel color 
  
 A half-century ago, the United States Navy valiantly entered the struggle to prevent communist aggression and liberate the people of South Vietnam. Stationed at Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin, the United States Seventh Fleet earned the nickname Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club. The qualifications for membership into the ‘Club’ broadly construed to any service-member assigned to 7th Fleet, from the ships on the gun line, to aircraft sorties from the carriers, to riverine units, and Marines on the shore. 
 Despite the tongue-in-cheek nickname, the Seventh Fleet was constantly engaged in combat operations against enemy forces through attack carrier air strikes, naval gunfire support, amphibious operations, patrol and reconnaissance operations, and mine warfare. Through their grit and determination, many lives were saved that would have otherwise fallen to the VC advance. 
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