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USS Panay (PR-5), 1928 Yangtze Patrol Gunboat, 1:192 scale resin kit Panay is the only one of "the new six" Yangtze Patrol gunboats available in a kit Dennis says the resin kit with photo etch parts by Iron Shipwright that will yield a 12" model has poor instructions, but he's undeterred as always Perstare et Praestare- persevere and excel, aka, don't let lousy instructions stop you
Ref Thread: Yangtze Service Medal - US MILITARIA FORUM To commemorate the services performed by the personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps during the operations in the valley of the Yangtze River, China, in 1926 and 1927, and 1930 and 1932, a medal to be known as the "Yangtze Service Medal" will be issued to the officers and enlisted men who particip
US Campaign Medals That Are Traceable By Number No medal rolls currently exist for the USMC Expeditionary, 2nd Nicaraguan and Yangtze All of the Army campaign medal rosters were published by Gleim's Planchet Press All but the Civil War, Indian Wars, Porto Rico Occupation and Philippine Campaign are out of print No numerical issue records exist for medals issued after 1925
The Real Sand Pebbles: Part II - US MILITARIA FORUM Here is the USS Villalobos toward the end of her career on the Yangtze Ironically, it was supposedly tales from the Villalobos pre –WWI days that inspired Richard McKenna to write the novel Mckenna merely updated it by having San Pablo operate during the 1926-27 Nationalist Army advance through China
Ref Thread: China Service Medal - US MILITARIA FORUM It appears that what you have is the very rare first style box for the 1937-39 China Service medal, to which a post-WW2 extended China Service medal was added Attached are scans of the 1st (pre-war) 2nd (post-war) style boxes for this medal Note that the 1st style box is the same size as the yellow box issued for the Yangtze Service medal, and has quote marks around its title The 2nd
Yangtze Patrol, Shanghai Navy Uniform with Dragons Here is a USN uniform that has been embroidered with dragons on the cuffs and on the back if the flap This sailor served on the Yangtze Patrol in 1945 Dick
Yangtze Service Medal Group to 31st Infantry Soldier . Distinguished . . . What is truly rare and unusual about this group is the award of the USMC Yangtze Service Medal Members of the 31st Infantry who served in Shanghai alongside the Marines from February 5th to July 1, 1932 were eligible to apply for the medal