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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
THE BEST: Flushing Chinatown - New York: Dining - eGullet Forums What are the best restaurants (and why) in Flushing Chinatown right now? Yangtze River, my former favorite, seems to be gone The scene there seem to shift rapidly What's the best current info?
Guangxi Gastronomy - China: Dining - eGullet Forums Although common across rice-eating southern China, swamp eels are particularly prized and reach their culinary apogee in the area known as Jiangnan Jiangnan means south of the river, the river being what is known in English as the Yangtze, a name unknown to most Chinese It is the 长江 (cháng jiāng – literally ‘River Chang’)
USMC Yangtze Service Medal #s IDed - US MILITARIA FORUM Thought since the Expeditionary Medal thread was so successful, I'd start one on the Yangtze service Medal Same rules, copy and paste These are the ones I found scattered around the forum These are USMC strikes USMC STRIKES 78- Percy Franklin Archer 672- Francis Marion Wulbern 1052- Jacob F
Named Soochow Creek Medal and A Yangtze Barrier Medal I missed his numbered Yangtze Service medal but bought a Studley replacement medal that Outler had engraved on the rim with his name EM1c, Shanghai, U S S Luzon and the dates 1931-1939 I bought his Yangtze Barrier medal along with his named Soochow Creek medal with its named certificate It is a shame everything was split up
Yangtze Patrol, USS Luzon, USS Beaver, Finn W. Outler Here is an Interesting group belonging to Finn Walter Outler consisting of a personal log book and two scrapbooks Outler served in the Asiatic Fleet on the USS Beaver, USS Panay and the USS Luzon during the 1920's and 30"s The logbook lists when and where he served with the Asiatic fleet The scrapbooks contain 160 pages of material he collected during that period Here is a small but
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
The Real Sand Pebbles? - US MILITARIA FORUM One of my favorite movies as a kid was The Sand Pebbles Set in pre-WWII China, and based upon a novel by Richard McKenna, a career Navy-man who spent time in the Far East during the 1930's including, I think at least one tour on a Yangtze River gunboat After McKenna retired from the Navy and gr
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