Kingoro Hashimoto
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Kingorō Hashimoto was an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army and politician. He was famous for having twice tried to stage a coup against the civilian government in the 1930s.
Hashimoto in 1947
Colonel Hashimoto (1931)
Hashimoto in the uniform of the Great Japan Youth Party, 1937
USS Panay incident
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The USS Panay incident was a Japanese bombing attack on the U.S. Navy river gunboat Panay and three Standard Oil Company tankers on the Yangtze River near the Chinese capital of Nanjing on 12 December
Kingoro Hashimoto
…Youth Party in October 1936. Hashimoto returned to active service after the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937. He was involved in the Panay incident of 12 December 1937 in which unprovoked Japanese bombers attacked and sank the USS Panay (PR-5) on the Yangtze River in China. Hashimoto was the senior…
USS Panay sinking after Japanese air attack. Nanjing, China.
Lt Shigeharu Murata, who led the attack on Panay
A frame from a newsreel which caught a Japanese plane attacking Panay in China
American gunners return fire at Japanese aircraft