Word: panay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Commander James J. Hughes, 55, skipper of the famed Xavy gunboat Panay when she was sunk in an attack by Japanese bombers in China's Yangtze River in 1937; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Washington...
...Manila. After working his way through the University of California and the University of Chicago, he returned to the Philippines, gave up a brief teaching career to enter politics, in 1937 was elected governor of Iloilo. When the Japanese came he rejected collaboration feelers, declared himself governor of all Panay, sent word to the invaders: "I will not surrender as long as I stand on my feet." When MacArthur returned, he was still standing...