The river gunboat USS Panay steams on the Yangtze River near Nanjing, China, in December 1937. As the Japanese Imperial Army bore down on Nanjing, reports began flooding in to the US Embassy of ...

Yangtze River, December 12th, 1937 A Japanese dive bomber lets its payload go, smashing into the USS Panay and sinking the vessel filled with evacuated civilians from china and journalists. A ...

A Japanese dive bomber lets its payload go, smashing into the USS Panay and sinking the vessel filled with evacuated civilians from china and journalists. A single event that set Japan on a ...

The river gunboat USS Panay steams on the Yangtze River near Nanjing, China, in December 1937. As the Japanese Imperial Army bore down on Nanjing, reports began flooding in to the US Embassy of ...

Meanwhile, more than 80 years after the Panay’s sinking, ... Some historians say that to fully understand Pearl Harbor, one must first understand what happened to the USS Panay in China.

Imperial Japan’s actions in China, including the sinking of the Panay, spurred the Roosevelt administration to push the Naval Act of 1938, which mandated a 20% increase in the size of the US ...

(CNN) — It’s a day seared into America’s collective memory: December 7, 1941. The day Imperial Japanese warplanes launched a devastating surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, sinking or ...

By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — It’s a day seared into America’s collective memory: December 7, 1941. The day Imperial Japanese warplanes launched a devastating surprise attack on Pearl Harbor ...

By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — It’s a day seared into America’s collective memory: December 7, 1941. The day Imperial Japanese warplanes launched a devastating surprise attack on Pearl Harbor ...