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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Zimmonda on 2025-07-22 15:38:23+00:00.

Original Title: TIL The sinking of the USS Panay and 3 Standard Oil tankers carrying 600 fleeing Chinese civilians ships during the battle of Nanking in 1937. 3 americans and an unknown number of Chinese civilians would die. FDR would order footage of the sinking edited to lower Japanese culpability and avoid war.