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USS Panay incident (1937)
On the Road to WW2 map as “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.
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- Second Sino-Japanese War (chapter 6 of Road to WW2)
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- The Road to War, 1931–1941
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