Jim’s Reviews > Prelude to War > Status Update

Even the U.S.S. Augusta, the flagship of the American Asiatic Fleet, which was anchored in Shanghai Harbor, felt the sting of war when a stray 37 mm anti-aircraft shell dropped among off-duty seamen who were watching a movie on the well deck, wounding 18 and killing a 20-year- old Louisianan named Freddie John Falgout...