The Panay Incident - Shelton, S. Martin
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It's a lazy Sunday afternoon on this twelfth of December, 1937. The American gunboat USS Panay plows the slow-moving waters of the Yangtze off Nanking. The Panay patrols China's rivers to protect American interests in the chaos that engulfs the Middle Kingdom. Today, the Japanese army has fought to the gates of Nanking. The Japanese bomb explodes dead center atop the Panay's wheelhouse. Fire, shrapnel, and wood splinters rip into the commanding officer and all others on watch. The second bomb smashes into the quarterdeck. The Japanese aircraft press their assault. Forty-five minutes later, the…mehr

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It's a lazy Sunday afternoon on this twelfth of December, 1937. The American gunboat USS Panay plows the slow-moving waters of the Yangtze off Nanking. The Panay patrols China's rivers to protect American interests in the chaos that engulfs the Middle Kingdom. Today, the Japanese army has fought to the gates of Nanking. The Japanese bomb explodes dead center atop the Panay's wheelhouse. Fire, shrapnel, and wood splinters rip into the commanding officer and all others on watch. The second bomb smashes into the quarterdeck. The Japanese aircraft press their assault. Forty-five minutes later, the Panay's bow dips under the Yangtze's surface and slowly settles on the riverbed. Though seriously wounded, Chief Radioman Mathew Marne survives and earns the Navy Cross for his exceptional heroism under fire. As known only by a few, Chief Marne is a naval intelligence agent. Marne relays details of his now unclassified, special-intelligence assignments across the Far East in maw of Japanese aggression before and during World War II; his clandestine activities ashore, his actions in several Pacific sea-battles; his love for a Chinese woman and for a Navy nurse with an attitude.
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Captain S. Martin Shelton retired from active and reserve naval service with the rank of captain. He served in the Korean and Vietnamese Wars, and elsewhere as a combat motion- picture cameraman, photographic officer, and intelligence specialist. He has an extensive background in Far Eastern studies. Shelton earned his Master of Arts Degree (Cinema) at the University of Southern California. He concentrated his studies on communications analysis, information theory, and film scripting and production. For thirty years, he produced a host of information and documentary motion-media shows, winning over forty awards in national and international film competitions and festivals. His peers elected him a Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication and served as the President of the Information Film Producers of America. After retirement, he began writing and publishing historical action-adventure novels set in the Far East and Africa. On the whole, his plots focus on important, yet little remembered, historical events of the early twentieth century. His writings comprise a mélange of aviators, assassins, and adventurers. His novella titled Khartoum earned a Finalist Award in the Writer's League of Texas annual publication competition, and his novella Abyssinia earned a Finalist Award in the National INDIE Excellence Awards. Shelton has posted details of his literary work at sheltoncomm.com.