 After the efforts of "Ticonderoga" and "Maddox", one boat was left dead in the water and the other two damaged.Two days later, late in the evening of 4 August, "Ticonderoga" received urgent requests from the destroyer — by then on patrol with "Maddox" — for air support in resisting what the destroyer alleged to be another torpedo boat foray.The carrier again launched aircraft to aid the American surface ships, and "Turner Joy" directed them.