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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...
...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...
...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...