Dog tagS,
various markings
We are often asked how the dog tags were struck at the time, then small turtoriel on the different strikes existing in time on the plate M1940. Attention, a soldier can be remap his own plates during his war so the typing pattern does not correspond to the date of engagement. To hit your own dog tags
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December 1940 – November 1941
1st line: First name, first letter of 2nd name, last name
2nd line: Number, blood type
3rd line: First name and last name of the person to contact
4th line: Address of the contact person
5th line: City and state of the contact person
November 1941 – July 1943
(addition of tetanus and religion)
1st line: First name, first letter of 2nd name, last name
2nd line: number, tetanus vaccination, tetanus booster, blood group
3rd line: First name and last name of the person to contact
4th line: Address of the contact person
5th line: City and state of the contact person, religion
July 1943 – March1944
(withdrawal of the person to contact for fear of reprisals)
1st line: First name, first letter of 2nd name, last name
2nd line: number, tetanus vaccination, tetanus booster, blood group
3rd line:
4th line:
5th line: Religion
March 1944 – April1946
(Name and surname inversion)
1st line: Surname, first name
2nd line: number, tetanus vaccination, tetanus booster, blood group
3rd line:
4th line:
5th line: Religion