Word: panay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kept out of U.S. operations bases in the islands to the south, where he was striving with might & main to get everything into the clutch of his stubby fingers. He had finally taken the city of Cebu (which U.S. airmen promptly fired - see p. 20), had landed also on Panay...
With his air strength spread thin (see p. 19) and his ground soldiers scattered from hell to breakfast over the southwest Pacific, the Jap's job was a big one-and Filipino troops were making it bigger every day by raiding him from Davao to the beachheads of Panay. If they had air-force help from Australia, they might make the job too big for the Jap to handle...
...also holds the important islands of Cebu, Negros and Panay in the Visayan...
...Japanese aircraft bombed and sank the U.S.S. Panay in Yangtze River, later said "Very sorry," paid $2,214,000 indemnity...
...abandoning of the peace talks, however, is no dramatic change of policy. Files of our State Department are jammed with documents and correspondence exchanged between both countries during the past few years. These show frequent indignation on the part of the United States over such incidents as the Panay sinking, whereupon "profound apologies" are received from the honorable Japanee. Her polite "go to hell" attitude was forsaken during the short life of the Soviet-Nazi pact when Japan, fearful of this unexpected move on the part of her traditional enemy, found it wise to turn smilingly to America. Despite...