Word: panay
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...Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto, bullyboy and cloak-&-dagger man, who in 1936 took part in the bloody coup against the Government. In 1937 he ordered the bombing of the U.S.S. Panay. His motto: "Watch me, Hashimoto. I am no man to sit and talk...
...swift U.S. success, not the least was the Filipinos themselves, whose guerrillas had been harassing Jap command posts, spying on sea movements, running weather stations and flashing messages to U.S. listening posts. Since the fall of 1942, when a weak radio signal was received in Australia from Panay, Douglas MacArthur had been supplying the rebels by submarine. Last week the guerrilla chief on Leyte and Samar, lithe, impassive Colonel Ruperto Kangleon claimed that his men had killed 3,800 Japs in the past year. Kangleon's chief of staff was a U.S PT-boat officer who missed the last...
...William George Rolph, visiting in Philadelphia, heard of trouble in the Philippines. He postponed his return to his home in London, joined the U.S. Army, saw action in Panay, then fought the Moros in Mindanao...
...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...
...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...