The USS Panay incident was a Japanese attack on the American gunboat Panay while it was anchored in the Yangtze River outside Nanking (now spelled Nanjing), China on December 12, 1937. Like the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor four years later, Japan and the United States were not at war at the time. The Japanese claimed that they did not see the US flags painted on the deck of the gunboat, apologized, and paid an indemnity. Nevertheless, the attack and the subsequent Allison incident in Nanking caused U.S. opinion to turn against the Japanese. Some extra facts: Date December 12, 1937 Location Yangtze River, off Nanking, China Result USS Panay sunk Belligerents United States Japan Commanders and leaders James J. Hughes Rūku Hikkumotto Strength 1 gunboat 12 aircraft Casualties and losses 1 gunboat sunk 3 killed 43 wounded none Civilian casualties: 2 killed, 5 wounded
The reason the Balkans are a shatterbelt is because they for 1 dont like eachother and also they have many differrences and in polital views and they all have unstable riots and ecodimy and they have micronations that are sprouting up such as Kosovo Limberland so they are spliting up.
