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Medal - 1937 China Incident
| Location | Japan |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Diameter | 54.5 mm |
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| Obverse description | In high relief, a gilded Japanese Imperial Army officer in full uniform, wearing a peaked cap and carrying a katana at his side, stands in profile facing right, holding binoculars to his eyes. In the lower foreground, soldiers man a machine gun position behind a sandbag emplacement, while the middle-ground field depicts a river with a burning city skyline in the background. |
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| Reverse description | Three gilded bomber aircraft in formation, depicted in high relief against a low-relief map of the eastern coast of China including Taiwan, with a large descending bomb forming the central vertical axis. Japanese characters are inscribed vertically along the bomb body and horizontally in the lower field. |
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| Reverse lettering | 支那事変記念 昭和十二年 造幣局製 |
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