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Kweilin incident... 1st civilian airliner shot down...
Kweilin incident... 1st civilian airliner shot down...
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August 26, 1938
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, August 26, 1938
* Kweilin incident - Douglas DC-2 airliner
* First civilian airplane to be shot down in history
The top of the front page has a one column heading: "U.S. PROTESTS TO JAPAN AGAINST ATTACK ON PLANE" with subheads. (see images)
Complete with all 30+ pages, light toning at the margins, small binding holes along the spine, generally nice.
wikipedia notes: The Kweilin incident occurred on August 24, 1938 when a Douglas DC-2 airliner (the Kweilin) carrying 18 passengers and crew was destroyed by Japanese aircraft in China. There were fourteen fatalities. It was the first civilian airliner in history to be shot down by hostile aircraft. The pilot was American and the crew and passengers Chinese. As it was unprecedented for a civilian aircraft to be attacked, there was international diplomatic outrage over the incident. In the United States, it helped solidify the popular view that Japan was morally wrong in their war against China, but the incident was not enough to spur the US into action against Japan despite Chinese entreaties. The Kweilin was re-built, and destroyed by the Japanese a second time two years later.
Category: The 20th Century
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