Military.com

The USS Panay Incident: Japanese Planes Attacked an American Ship, Killing U.S. Sailors and Civilians Four Years Before Pearl Harbor

Norman Alley was napping on deck when Japanese bombs started falling. The Universal News cameraman grabbed his camera and ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A look back at the Civil War gunboats

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The St. Louis Bridge under construction over the Mississippi River downtown. James B. Eads built the steel-and-stone bridge, ...
WRAL

Years before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan sank a US warship in China

(CNN) — It’s a day seared into America’s collective memory: December 7, 1941. The day Imperial Japanese warplanes launched a devastating surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, sinking or damaging 19 ...
The New York Times

OPERATIONS ON THE JAMES RIVER.; THE GUNBOAT E.A. STEVENS IN THE EIGHT AT FORT DARLING.

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
Yahoo News Australia

Duchess of Edinburgh tours world's oldest river gunboat, built in UK, during Peru visit

The Duchess of Edinburgh toured the world's oldest river gunboat, which was built in the UK over 100 years ago, on the second day of her visit to Peru. Sophie was taken on a tour of the BAP America ...
Time

Foreign News: Asparagus & Oatmeal

Japanese infantry, slogging up the swampy banks of the Yangtze, supported by Japanese river gunboats and bombing planes, last week took the famed Chinese pottery centre, Kiukiang. their objective for ...