Red Chinese Korean War Decorations
For Civil War and Sino-Soviet Friendship medals, please see those threads.
This is medal #942 in the "Illustrated Collection of Badges in the Chinese People's Revolutionary Museum."
It's title is translated as "The Anti-American and Support Korea Medal presented by the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consult Congress." Whew!
Although this is one of the more readily available PRC Korean War awards, it seems that it may have actually been a decoration rather than a mere propaganda or "war volunteer" badge. Photos show officers wearing this badge in a superior position to other PRC badges at the time.
It is better made than most Chinese awards of the period, in a non-tarnishing gold metal, with real enamel rather than the ubiquitous thick paint otherwise encountered.
Whether the 1951 date referred to institution date, or like the early Sino-Soviet Friendship Medals, indicated an actual BESTOWAL date is not known to me.
Red Chinese military awards are an extremely obscure subject and research is only in pioneer stages.
All of the examples in my collection so far have come directly from the former Soviet Union, and from those still accompanied by documentation (see the Shanghai Civil Defense Order thread etc), it seems that Soviet military personnel were directly and heavily involved in all sorts of Chinese operations from 1945 to 1953.
This is medal #942 in the "Illustrated Collection of Badges in the Chinese People's Revolutionary Museum."
It's title is translated as "The Anti-American and Support Korea Medal presented by the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consult Congress." Whew!
Although this is one of the more readily available PRC Korean War awards, it seems that it may have actually been a decoration rather than a mere propaganda or "war volunteer" badge. Photos show officers wearing this badge in a superior position to other PRC badges at the time.
It is better made than most Chinese awards of the period, in a non-tarnishing gold metal, with real enamel rather than the ubiquitous thick paint otherwise encountered.
Whether the 1951 date referred to institution date, or like the early Sino-Soviet Friendship Medals, indicated an actual BESTOWAL date is not known to me.
Red Chinese military awards are an extremely obscure subject and research is only in pioneer stages.
All of the examples in my collection so far have come directly from the former Soviet Union, and from those still accompanied by documentation (see the Shanghai Civil Defense Order thread etc), it seems that Soviet military personnel were directly and heavily involved in all sorts of Chinese operations from 1945 to 1953.
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