Images below: The following photographs were taken during the service of William Humphries in late 1937 onboard HMS Bee. They were actually shot from HMS Gnat during the Japanese bombing of the Pukow railway yard, which lies immediately across the Yangtze form Nanking. The railway from Jinan crosses the Yangtze by ferry at Pukow and the ferry loading bridge is probably seen in the right of two of the photographs. Notations appearing on the reverse of each photograph are below each image.

Above: "Big stuff lit Pukow yards."

Above: "Some more 500 pounders. Several pieces of shrapnel from these pierced our awning."

Above: "Eight 500 pound bombs from three Jap bombers. The low black ship is the train ferry taking shelter from bombs by getting next to 'Bee'. (All these snaps taken from Gnat.)"

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