Word: panay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...create any overt act. His planned strategy, in the event of attack, was to send his bombers over Formosa, the enemy's staging point. Sending the B-17s over Formosa would certainly be "overt." Were the Japs really making war, or was this another "mistake" like the Panay incident? Undetected, Jap bombers soared over Clark Field. When they had gone, the Far East Air Force's main airdrome was a wreckage. Half of Major General Lewis H. Brereton's bomber force had been destroyed...
Terming the Panay bombing "a shocking blunder," Ambassador Saito said that there is "no compensation which mortal man can make that is adequate for the families bereft...
...said that his country was doing all in its power to prevent repetition of such an event as the Panay affair. "The naval officer who was in command of the aircraft squadron in Shanghai has been dismissed and recalled home," Saito revealed. "All other necessary steps are being and will be taken so that guarantees of safety will be assured all foreign persons and interests in the future...
...always remembered Americans' birthdays, and always remembered to tell the story of the little cemetery in Japan where some shipwrecked U.S. sailors were buried, whose graves were perpetually and tenderly cared for. In 1937, with tears literally blurring his eyes, he apologized for the sinking of the Panay. "I am merely an ignorant sailor," he said, "but I want you to know that I am speaking from the depths of my heart. I am positive it was an accident...
...Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto, who ordered the bombing of the Panay...