I wish you much success on your search. Great photo's of the ol' proud vet. Very cool to see. 

What Price Glory reproduction

PM him or I'll cry ;)

USN / Reconnaissance Attack (Heavy) Squadron 13 (RVAH-13) "Bats". RA-5C "Vigilante". Japanese-made 1967 "Konwal Super". 

Hey Blitz... Gil did not post that. Originally he did. I re posted it thinking you  must have never read it. ? Cheers!

I have no idea why you are quoting me here? No big but no comprehension of why on my part?

I thought I was the only uninformed person on the forum.

A very good reference book is Emerson's Encyclopedia of US Army Insignia and Uniforms.

There are three known examples of the Chien Men Siege medal discovered so far….this one came with a group belonging to a Peiping Bandsman. What is interesting about the Peloza group currently on eBay he probably got his Soochow in 1939 while on the USS Augusta long after the fighting in Shanghai had moved well beyond the city…..so I guess the medals were still available to Marines in Shanghai and still available for purchase. Also despite having reviewed copies of all the embassy guard weekly magazines during the late 1930’s I have yet to find why medal was created apart from the Marines housing American refugees on at their compound while the Japanese overran Peiping. It seems unlike the Soochow, very few of the Embassy guard bought them. Lastly, that Soochow price wise is already at the higher ends of all Soochows in have seen in 20 years of tracking them.

No. The bright buttons and insignia returned around 1922. The 1918 uniform featured internal pockets instead of exterior patch pockets among other changes.