Question

Reaction to the japanses attack on the us gunboat panay in china in 1937 revealed that

Answer 1

Japan's sinking of a US gunboat during its assault on nanking heightened tensions between the two countries four years before the attack on Pearl Harbor. on the morning of Dec 12.1937, the US gunboat PANAY was anchored in the middle of the Yangtze River 27 miles upriver from nanking.