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Letter from a Young Boy Following the Panay Incident (Teaching with Documents)

Submitted by Jennifer Bauduy on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 12:41pm

By Trevor K. Plante and Lee Ann Potter
The featured 1937 letter from a Japanese primary school student apologizing for the sinking of the USS Panay by Japanese aircraft provides an entry into the study of U.S.-Japanese relations before World War II.

http://publications.socialstudies.org/se/7202/720262.pdf [1]

World War II [2]
Social Education [3]
Secondary/High School [4]
US History [5]

Source URL: http://www.socialstudies.org/teacherslibrary/letter-young-boy-following-panay-incident-teaching-documents

Links:
[1] http://publications.socialstudies.org/se/7202/720262.pdf
[2] http://www.socialstudies.org/category/historical-period/world-war-ii-0
[3] http://www.socialstudies.org/category/journal/social-education
[4] http://www.socialstudies.org/secondaryhighschool
[5] http://www.socialstudies.org/ushistory