Japan, Occupied Manchukuo. A Border Incident War Medal 1939 Archive measuring 33cm

measuring 33cm

Printed in four colours on a paper stock

that "About week & half ago (he) was taken with pain in his right side & felt feverish at night

74 mm (w) x 47

Japan, Occupied Manchukuo. A Border Incident War Medal 1939 Archive measuring 33cmInstituted in 1940. In bronze gilt, measuring 30 mm in diameter, residue evident in the recessed areas, spotting, light contact, original ribbon with hook and eye, better than very fine. Footnote: The medal was instituted in 1940 and commemorates the Nomonhan Incident, a clash with Russia that happened in Manchuria. The Battles of Khalkhyn Gol were the decisive engagements of the undeclared Soviet Japanese border conflicts fought among the Soviet