U.S. Military Attache's Panay Incident Heroism Washington. Apr. 25.
The War Department today awarded Capt. Frank N. Roberts, Assistant Military Attache in China, a Distinguished Service Medal for his heroic work following the fa Japanese bombing of the American gunboat Panay above Nanking last December.
Capt. Roberts, a passenger-on the Panay when the ship was sunk by Japanese bombs, conducted a group of survivors to safety through a zone of combat, the War Department sd out in announcing the award —United Press,
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