Korean War Medal groups

[usairforce]

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[Chris Boonzaier]

What exactly are they for? My Korean is pretty bad this week... ;-)

[usairforce]

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[Wild Card]

I don't know what it is, but...

[Ed_Haynes]

Yes, nice, but totally meaningless and confusing.

[Guest Rick Research]

Medal is #957 in the People's Revolutionary Museum Illustrated Collection of badges book:

awarded by the Anti-American and Support-Korea Committee of the PRC Railways.

I am confused by the paperwork, which is clearly Soviet in origin, but written in Chinese inside. All I can make out from the texts on both is "39 Year" (???)

[reichsrommel]

Brother Wang(usairforce), it seems that you should explain for friends here when you posted pictures.

It is the set of Medal of Anti US and Support North Korea of Chinese People's Voluntary Army Railway Branch. The paper is the award certificate. 39 is not for year, it is the division number. The awardee was a soldier of Regt 7, Div 39. The cover of this certificate is Lenin, Red Flag, etc.

Hope this helpful

Yours, Tang Si

[Guest Rick Research]

Yes indeed! Does the word for a military "division" use the character for "year"and then another? The only "words" I have learned to read in Chinese are for day, month, year.

[reichsrommel]

Yes indeed! Does the word for a military "division" use the character for "year"and then another? The only "words" I have learned to read in Chinese are for day, month, year.

Hi, Rick

The script written by the regiment commander is so careless that the 'division' is like 'year'. In Chinese, year is '年', month is '月', day is '日', and division is '师'

Yours, Tang Si

[Chris Boonzaier]

OK, got it.

The advatnages of an international membership... seeing and getting something explained that probably noone else in Bavaria even knows exists...

Good stuff!

[Jacky]

whow,

Really impressing, anti-US awards....

But to me it could have meant anything...

thanks for clarifying.

Kind regards,

Jacky

p.s.

Speaking about Bavaria......

Let's go to the cafe and have a bavaria

[Ulsterman]

really impressive awards-

Tang si there is a world waiting for someone to translate and explain the awards of the PRC to us.

I know i would love to own some bone fide Korean War era medals.

[Ed_Haynes]

Thanks for the translation and background, Tang Si!

[Guest Rick Research]

Thanks! My computer cannot "see" Chinese characters typed into text--only little empty boxes where characters are typed in.

The same with Russian, but we have found a way to "trick" the computers into seeing Cyrillic HERE on the website.