In 1937, Japanese bombers attacked the USS Panay as it escorted civilians away from the fall of Nanking — despite American flags painted on the ship and its radioed position. The United States erupted ...
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 US Navy ...
Dec. 12 (UPI) --In this date in history: In 1870, Joseph Hayne Rainey of South Carolina was sworn in as the first African American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1901, Italian ...
The world would begin to heat up during FDR's second term. The primary area that saw the temperature rise was Europe but America did not escape. On Decemder 12, 1937, the Japanese attacked the USS ...
On December 12, 1937, the US Navy river gunboat USS Panay and three Standard Oil Company tankers were evacuating American citizens trapped by Japan’s invasion of Nanjing when they were targeted from ...
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