Knight's badge of the National Order of Vietnam issued to First Lt. John Warren

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

Knight's badge of the National Order of Vietnam features a circular medal. The ribbon is red with a yellow border stripes. The pinback is missing. The medal hangs from its ribbon by a circular metal double ended loop with a central decorative bar of a dragon's head with green accents. The medallion has a center circle with five radiating decorative gold points similar to a star. In between each point is the rest of the dragon's green body with a larger section including his tail at the bottom of the medal. In the central circle, a red circle has words in gold, [TO QUOC / TRAIN] with a blue and gold Greek fret border. The medal is in an upwards concave. The back is blank.

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