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Turning point · The Road to War, 1931–1941
The USS Panay
12 Dec 1937 — Japanese aircraft sink an American gunboat evacuating civilians up the Yangtze, in plain daylight. Tokyo apologizes and pays; Washington accepts — and remembers.
This is one scene of Chapter 6 — China: The War Nobody Declared in The Road to War, 1931–1941.
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