12 December 1937 December 11, 2012 Author: Staff Japanese aircraft bomb and sink US gunboat USS Panay on the Yangtze River in China. Famous Words of Inspiration..."What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when He catches us, as it were, off our guard." C.S. Lewis — Click here for more from C.S. Lewis Related posts: 13 August 1937 6 May 1937 13 August 1937 27 September 1937 12 December 1988 2 July 1937 Categories: History Tags: 12 December, 1937