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To: labette

In this game, should we consider the Japanese bombing of that ship in Shanghai harbor in 1937? The Penang was it?

11 posted on 11/25/2006 7:09:34 AM PST by RaceBannon (Innocent until proven guilty: The Pendleton 8)

To: RaceBannon

"In this game, should we consider the Japanese bombing of that ship in Shanghai harbor in 1937? The Penang was it?"

River gunboat Panay- still remember the old newsreels of her being sunk:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panay_incident

http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/dafs/PR/pr5-sinking.html

http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/ww2Timeline/panay.html

12 posted on 11/25/2006 7:21:07 AM PST by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)

To: RaceBannon

Found the newsreels- the MG's on Panay's deck are Lewis guns, IIRC:

15 posted on 11/25/2006 7:37:23 AM PST by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)

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