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==Military career==
In 1917 with the beginning of World War I, at the age of
Upon his return from [[Europe]] at the end of the [[First World War]], Lang enlisted in the [[United States Navy]]. Lang served for most of his navy career in the [[China Fleet]], where he was [[Quartermaster]] in the ship's company of several [[gunboats]]. In the 1920s, he was awarded the US [[Navy Cross]] and the Japanese [[Order of the Chrysanthemum]]<ref>"Between the Line of World War II" Chapter 21, by Paul M Edwards, Mcfarland & Company, Jefferson, North Carolina, 2010</ref> for his heroism during a combined Japanese/US naval operation on the [[Yangtze River]] against [[China|Chinese]] warlord forces. The Chinese had besieged the foreign diplomatic legations on the river.
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