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
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
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.
USS Panay incident
…cowered knee-deep in mud in a swamp. Panay's lifeboats were machine-gunned by Japanese fighter planes in the attack. As the ship sank, Japanese colonel Kingoro Hashimoto, who was in the immediate vicinity, ordered his artillery to fire on Panay. Hashimoto also ordered his troops to fire on British vessels whose identities…
Hashimoto in 1947
Colonel Hashimoto (1931)
Hashimoto in the uniform of the Great Japan Youth Party, 1937