[backhoe]

"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

[Christopher Lincoln]

John Gunther pointed out in Inside Asia that the Panay's crew defended themselves with machine guns - that is, combat took place between U.S. and Japanese forces.

[RaceBannon]

Great find, I knew it started with P anyways! :)