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Lunchbox Lecture
H. Mortimer Favrot Orientation Center

Joey Balfour presents "The Sinking of the USS Panay"

On the afternoon of Sunday, December 12, 1937 the US Navy gunboat USS Panay was attacked and sunk by Japanese air and surface forces while anchored in the middle of the Yangtze River approximately 27 miles upriver from the besieged city of Nanking. The Japanese government later claimed that that the attack had been a case of mistaken identity. The Japanese issued a formal apology to the US government and the American people and paid the US over 2.2 million dollars in restitution for the loss of the ship and death and injuries suffered by her crew. Historian Joey Balfour presents. For more information call 504-528-1944 x 229.

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Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Repeat every other week until 12/17/2014


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