{"id":724,"date":"2010-05-19T18:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/army-dog-tags-a-story-my-discovery\/"},"modified":"2013-07-09T17:16:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T22:16:01","slug":"army-dog-tags-a-story-my-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/army-dog-tags-a-story-my-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Dog Tags: A Story & My Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Story<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was catching up on my blog reading while waiting for my hair appointment.\u00a0 I had come across the post Help Find a WW2 Soldier from Illinois<\/a> over at Olive Tree Genealogy<\/a>, and just barely started reading it when they called me back for my haircut.\u00a0 When I got home, I headed to the computer to finish reading the blog post.<\/p>\n

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The long and short of the story is someone in Australia found WWII dog tags and was hoping to find living relatives to pass them on to.\u00a0 Olive Tree Genealogy author Lorine, posted the information found on the tags, along with a photo.\u00a0 Several people jumped on board to help find a relative, posted their finds in the comments of the blog post.\u00a0 Someone located and contacted the man\u2019s wife, and it looks like she will be reunited with her late husband\u2019s WWII dog tags.\u00a0 Be sure to read her post and the comments.<\/p>\n

My Discovery<\/strong><\/p>\n

While reading through the comments, someone posted information on what the information on the dog tags meant, specifically, the serial number.\u00a0 The comment referred to a website<\/a> that I checked out to see if I could learn more about my grandfather\u2019s WWII history through his dog tags.<\/p>\n

\"dogtags\"<\/p>\n

I discovered that he was in fact drafted, based on the first number of his serial number (3).\u00a0 I had suspected this, loosely based on the fact that I could not located enlistment card, and a relative (who\u2019s now in his late 70s) was \u201cpretty sure\u201d he was drafted.\u00a0 I could not located a draft card because he was too young to be in the fourth batch of draft cards currently available to the public.<\/p>\n

The second number refers to the Corps Area or Service Command.\u00a0 A number of 6 indicates the Sixth Corps Area, which is part of the Second Army Area.\u00a0 The Sixth Corps Area contains Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan.<\/p>\n

I also came across this website<\/a>, which explains what the other information is, as well as the reason for the notch<\/a> on the left side of the tags.\u00a0 According to my grandfather\u2019s tags, he had a tetanus shot in 1943, had a blood type of O, and I\u2019m assuming the \u201cC\u201d stands for Catholic.<\/p>\n

\"dogtags1\"<\/p>\n

It\u2019s amazing how much information a few lines of text can provide!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Story I was catching up on my blog reading while waiting for my hair appointment.\u00a0 I had come across the post Help Find a WW2 Soldier from Illinois over at Olive Tree Genealogy, and just barely started reading it when they called me back […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,25,302,26],"tags":[311],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","category-genblog","category-military","category-personal-research","tag-family-cahill","cat-27-id","cat-25-id","cat-302-id","cat-26-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-bG","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3611,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/3611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}