Four years before Pearl Harbor, Japan launched an unprovoked air assault on the American gunboat USS Panay in China. The attack was an early sign of imperial aggression in East Asia. Though Japan ...

before returning to Asia. His father, Lt. Arthur Anders, was second-in-command of the gunboat Panay, which helped evacuate Americans after Japan sharply escalated its battles with China in July ...

For the U. S. Government, the sinking of the U. S. gunboat Panay by Japanese bombers on December 12 is officially a closed incident. But to the U. S. public, which knew that two newsreel cameramen ...

S. river gunboat, Panay. Chinese built the 450-ton Panay, designed especially to protect U. S. shipping from Chinese river pirates on the Yangtze. She was launched at Shanghai in 1927. Last week ...

SHANGHAI -- The united States gunboat Panay was bombed and sunk in the Yangtse river at a point about 25 miles upstream from Nanking late Sunday, according to official reports radioed to Shanghai ...

On Dec. 12, 1937, the US Naval gunboat Panay was attacked by Japanese bombers on the Yangtze River in China. Just weeks earlier, the Japanese had seized control of Nanjing, the capital of ...

On December 12, 1937, the US Naval gunboat Panay was attacked by Japanese bombers on the Yangtze River in China. Just weeks earlier, the Japanese had seized control of Nanjing, the capital of ...

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 damaging 19 ...