High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Battle of Haiphong Harbor, or Operation Lion's Den, was an engagement fought in 1972 during the Vietnam War. On August 27, four United States Navy warships and a pair of naval attack aircraft launched a raid against the North Vietnamese forces protecting the port of Haiphong. In a night surface engagement, the American vessels successfully bombarded the enemy gun positions around Haiphong and then sank three out of four Russian-built torpedo boats which threatened the squadron. It was one of the few ship-to-ship naval battles of the war and the most recent naval battle involving the United States to have been fought in nighttime conditions. The New York Times called it "a daring raid into strongly defended enemy territory..... The enemy has once again been reminded of the mobility of the fleet." Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в информационном сетевом...

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