USS Panay (PR-5), 1928 Yangtze Patrol Gunboat, 1:192 scale resin kit
Jan 17, 2023 · This is the latest USN ship that I've commissioned my friend, Dennis, to build for me. It's being built as a tribute to COMYANGPAT at the time that six new gunboats for the Yangtze Patrol were built at Shanghai between 1926-27, and commissioned between 1927-28.
Ref Thread: Yangtze Service Medal - US MILITARIA FORUM
Aug 23, 2009 · To commemorate the services performed by the personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps during the operations in the valley of the Yangtze River, China, in 1926 and 1927, and 1930 and 1932, a medal to be known as the "Yangtze Service Medal" will be issued to the officers and enlisted men who participated in those operations.
The Real Sand Pebbles? - US MILITARIA FORUM
May 11, 2009 · Set in pre-WWII China, and based upon a novel by Richard McKenna, a career Navy-man who spent time in the Far East during the 1930's including, I think at least one tour on a Yangtze River gunboat. After McKenna retired from the Navy and graduated from college, he wrote a novel about a small American gunboat the USS San Pablo operating in and ...
Yangtze Patrol, Captain USS Panay, USS S-34 China
Aug 28, 2017 · Dyer was Captain of the USS Panay, serving with the Yangtze Patrol in Shanghai, China, from 1930 to 1932. In 1931 he reported, as Captain of the Panay, "Firing on gunboats and merchant ships (by the Chinese) has become so routine that any vessel traversing the Yangtze River sails with the expectation of being fired upon. Fortunately," he added ...
Lt David Nash USN WWII POW Navy Cross Group Corregidor 1942
Dec 30, 2014 · The US Navy's Yangtze Patrol The river patrol craft had a shallow draft and were not built for ocean travel. Their rudders and propellers were practically at the water's surface. The USS Mindanao (PR-8) was one of eight gunboats built for service on the Yangtze River and Chinese coastal waters. The ship was built in Shanghai, China, by the ...
Yangtze Patrol, Shanghai Navy Uniform with Dragons
May 15, 2017 · Here is a USN uniform that has been embroidered with dragons on the cuffs and on the back if the flap. This sailor served on the Yangtze Patrol in 1945.
The Real Sand Pebbles: Part II - US MILITARIA FORUM
Mar 23, 2014 · In May of 1925 he is in the Far East assigned to the USS Isabel, the flag ship of the Yangtze patrol. His time on the Isabel is brief, because within 9 months he is aboard the USS Monocacy. At only 165 feet long, 207 tons with a draft of only 2.5 feet, this little gunboat is assigned to the far reaches of the Yangtze River.
Black Widow Navy Cross, Legion of Merit, Yangtze Patrol group to …
Dec 8, 2019 · LCDR Arthur G. Robinson, when he commanded the Yangtze Patrol river gunboat U.S.S. Palos, pictured with other Asiatic fleet or Yangtze Patrol C.O.’s at Chungking, China, 1,326 miles upriver from Shanghai, in 1926. Pictured in front are CIC Asiatic Fleet ADM Henry H. Hough and Commander, Yangtze Patrol (ComYangPat) RADM Henry H. Hough.
THE BEST: Flushing Chinatown - New York: Dining - eGullet Forums
Jul 6, 2006 · Peoples and People - Shanghai Chinese. For Shanghai style breakfast food, Peoples and People(the awning now says "No. 1 East Restaurant) restaurant is the best.
China's Many Diverse Cuisines - eGullet Forums
Dec 24, 2023 · Yangtze (Mandarin: 扬子江 (yáng zǐ jiāng) more correctly only refers to the lower reaches of the river. Anyway, in the end, I decided go with the ‘Eight Cuisines’ theory and separate them, largely because the three cuisines involved in Jiangnan do have significant differences, and despite the name meaning the south, does include one ...