AWARD OF NAVY CROSS TO LT. ARTHUR ANDERS USS PANAY INCIDENT 1937 XD13374

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This brief newsreel shows the presentation of the Navy Cross to the “hero of the USS Panay“, Lt. Arthur Anders, in San Pedro, California. The USS Panay incident on December 12, 1937, was a Japanese bombing attack on the American river gunboat Panay and three Standard Oil Company tankers on the Yangtze River. They strafed survivors in the water. Although wounded in the throat, Anders heroically assisted his crew and passengers, and wrote orders in his own blood to abandon ship. Citation: The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Commander [then Lieutenant] Arthur F. Anders, United States Navy, for extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty while serving as Executive Officer of the . PANAY (PR-5) on the occasion of the bombing and loss of that vessel when it was attacked was attacked by Japanese airplanes during