Cmdr, J. J. Hughes. Japanese planes also machine-gunned the decks of the Panay 4 Japanese river craft fired on the fatally damaged American Warship op which a number of Americans and other foreigners were killed or wounded, the report confirmed.
The Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Claude Swanson, authorized publication of the wounded Panay commander's report to^ the Navy Department in which the bombing of the American ship was said to have continued for nearly an hour.
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