YESTERDAY'S BIG STORY A story of high drama gripped the world's attention in 1937... It was the story of the U.S. Gunboat PANAY. As was to happen four years later at Pearl Harbor; a quiet Sunday afternoon erupted into an inferno of bombs and fire as Japanese planes attack the U.S. ship carrying American refugees from war-ravaged Nanking. Clearly labeled with American flags; the PANAY was dive-bombed and machine -gunned and two men were killed and a dozen wounded. The Japanese government apologized; but why it happened is a quotation unanswered to this day.