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Medal - 1937 China Incident

Medal - 1937 China Incident - obverseMedal - 1937 China Incident - reverse

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Location Japan
Emperor Shōwa (1926-1989)
Type Commemorative medals › Military medals
Composition Bronze (Partially gilded)
Weight 79.18 g
Diameter 54.5 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled (high relief)
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
533525

Obverse

Japanese officer in uniform, wearing a peaked cap, holding binoculars to his eyes. In the background a city by a river as a battlefield landscape, below a machine gunner's position.

Reverse

Three bomber planes over large bomb and map of the eastern coast of China.

Scripts: Hiragana, Katakana

Lettering:
支部やイベントの記念
年目とショー
松園謹製

Edge

Plain

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND  Non-gilded version
ND  年二十和昭 (1937)

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