On this day, 88 years ago, on August 23, 1937 (July 18, 1937, the lunar calendar), Japanese planes bombed Shanghai, killing and injuring countless civilians. The area around Nanjing Road and the Bund was bombed According to newspaper reports, at 1 p.m. on August 23, 1937, near Jiangxi Road in the Shanghai Public Concession,"a bomb fell from the sky on the U.S. Navy Stack House and penetrated straight through the third floor to the ground floor.""Another bomb landed on Nanjing Road and fell directly on the third-floor balcony of Xianshi Company. It broke out immediately. Yong 'an and Xianshi Company and nearby shops were severely damaged. The patrols who managed traffic lights and directed traffic and customers of the two companies, as well as Chinese and foreign people traveling. More than 700 people were killed and injured." At about 2 pm on the 28th, at Shanghai South Railway Station,"twelve enemy planes dropped a total of eight bombs near the South Railway Station. The station's platform, overpass, water tower, and garage were destroyed. At the same time, refugees waiting on the platform were all in trouble, with six to seven hundred casualties. The deceased lay on the ground, and the injured turned to his side and shouted, with broken limbs and heads everywhere. Blood flowed into canals and the soil was all red. The scene was extremely tragic." "On the 28th, the bombing of South Railway Station killed 700 refugees and injured countless people. On the 31st, more than 200 wounded refugees waiting at Yangxing Bus Station to leave Shanghai were all killed. "Shanghai in a pool of blood: A witness's narration On August 24, the National Salvation Daily reported that the reporter had a relative who escaped on August 23. He thought that this war was similar to "January 28", so when all the streets were cleared, he still lived and died with two bags of rice. However, the gunshots were getting louder day by day. He regretted it, but it was too late. At about 9 o'clock on the evening of the 22nd, the front and window of their building were all red. They thought that the fire was burning next door, so they quickly escaped from the house and hid in the alley. They shook their ropes and looked out of the alley door. The Xiangyuli house diagonally opposite was already full of flames. Regarding the terror he experienced personally, he recounted that the bombing of planes caused the fleeing people to fall one after another. A middle-aged man had a hole the size of a teacup in his back. Blood kept flowing out of it. When he fell, he took out a handkerchief from his upper pocket with his left hand and covered his wound with his back. He stopped breathing halfway through this action. I was preparing to cry for help on his behalf when another, more tragic situation seized my sight. A woman dressed in white and black trousers, whose right arm had been blown off, ran west crying and screaming. When she heard people by the roadside say that she had blown off her arm, she simply "looked back" and fell down silently. In the streets, cars and rickshaws were transporting men and women covered in blood. In one of the rickshaws, an old man in black silk shorts was holding his blown head with both hands and shouting frantically. Between his knees lay a child under ten. After the Shanghai South Railway Station was bombed on August 28, an injured child cried in pain and horror. Shanghai citizens were killed by the Japanese army. The people of Shanghai rushed to flee their hometowns. In pain and sorrow, the Japanese army invaded Shanghai, and a large number of refugees fled from Hongkou and Zhabei areas through Waibaidu Bridge into the Concession