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{{Infobox military award
|name=Yangtze Service Medal
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|presenter=[[United States Department of the Navy|Department of the Navy]]
|type=Medal
|eligibility=Members of the US Navy and Marine Corps
|awarded_for=Service on shore at Shanghai or in the valley of the Yangtze River between 3 September 1926 to 21 October 1927 and 1 March 1930 to 31 December 1932.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.history.navy.mil/medals/yangtze.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19980703132310/http://www.history.navy.mil/medals/yangtze.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 3, 1998 |title=Yangtze Service Medal |publisher= Naval History and Heritage Command|work=History.navy.mil|access-date=2012-03-24}}</ref>
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The '''Yangtze Service Medal''' is a decoration of the [[United States military]] which was created in 1930 for presentation to members of the [[United States Navy]] and [[United States Marine Corps]] (and to a lesser extent, members of the [[United States Army]]).  The Yangtze Service Medal is awarded for service in the [[Yangtze River|Yangtze River Valley]] between September 3, 1926 and December 31, 1932, a period of significant unrest in the region.

The decoration may also be awarded for those military service members who served on permanent duty in [[Shanghai, China]], provided such service was in direct support of landing operations in the Yangtze River Valley (e.g. [[Nanking incident of 1927]]).  The Yangtze Service Medal was declared obsolete in 1940 when it was replaced by the [[China Service Medal]].

The designer of the Yangtze Service Medal is [[John R. Sinnock]] of the [[Philadelphia Mint]].<ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.foxfall.com/csm-navy-ysm.htm | title= YANGTZE SERVICE MEDAL (Navy and Marine Corps)| access-date= October 9, 2018 | work = COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS FOR SALE|publisher=Foxfall Medals}}</ref> Sinnock was the eighth Chief Engraver of the United States Mint from 1925 to 1947.

==See also==
*[[Awards and decorations of the United States military]]
*[[Yangtze Patrol]]

==References==
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[[Category:United States service medals]]
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