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...international city of Shanghai. They had come on the pretext of protecting Japanese citizens from attacks by Chinese mobs. In response, Nationalist forces moved into the Chinese suburb of Chapei and skirmished with patrolling Japanese marines. With his men giving way to the larger Chinese forces, Admiral Koichi Shiozawa ordered planes from his carriers to drop 30-lb. bombs over densely populated Chapei. It was the first wholesale air attack on civilian targets in history. Thousands of people, many of them women and children, were maimed and killed...
Died. Admiral Koichi Shiozawa, 60, top-ranking Japanese naval constructor, early experimenter with blitz warfare against civilians; of an acute pancreas ailment; in Tokyo...
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