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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Father Terrence who wrote (29071)1/25/1999 10:52:00 AM
From: nihil  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Terrence

Four years (12 Dec 37) before Pearl Harbor (7 Dec 41) the Japanese shelled, bombed and sank the U.S. Panay - (a la "Sandpebbles")- a gun boat engaged in evacuating Americans from Nanking, and authorized by treaty to be on the Yangtse Ho. My cousin was wounded, and some were killed. This is public record (Morison, The Rising Sun p. 16) "What happended to the Panay was deliberately planned by Japanese officers. ... this little flotilla was fired on repeatedly by a shore battery commanded by Colonel Hashimoto [played by Sessue Hasekawa in the film, no doubt] ... His object was to provoke the United States into a declaration of war, ..." The Japanese apologized and quickly paid compensation. It would be delightful if you could produce a citation for documentary evidence your stepfather's interesting sea story (also see Sgt. Grit, USMC for good tales)..
The United States continued to export essential scrap iron and petroleum until summer 1941 when it was embargoed. I find nothing in Morison about naval harassment by U.S. (there was plenty of diplomatic harassment) -- in fact, American ships and planes were withheld from patroling over the line in Northern Pacific (which eventually allowed the Japanese task fleet to slip through) owing to the fecklessness of Admiral Bloch.
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