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I want to start this thread to get an idea of what types of dog tags were being worn at certain times. I am always wondering what type was worn during a certain battle or campaign and haven't seen much photographic evidence of what was actually worn. Any time period really. Please post some!

 

Here's a great pic of a GI wearing what looks to be an NOK set with silencers on them in 1944 at St.Lo from Criticalpast

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Should note that many people think that since NOK tags were discontinued in 1943, that they didn't see action in Normandy. Some in fact did. This is a great photo of a post June 1944 shot

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Cool idea Connor. This has always been one of my favorites, a 3rd ID medic treating a wounded comrade in Sicily in 1943. Great shot of his NOK tag

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Cool idea Connor. This has always been one of my favorites, a 3rd ID medic treating a wounded comrade in Sicily in 1943. Great shot of his NOK tag

Awesome pic Phil. It looks like he might have a tetanus date on there, but it's really hard to tell.

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Another shot, South Vietnam 1966. You can see the blood on his tag, and he appears to be wearing only one

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Awesome pic Phil. It looks like he might have a tetanus date on there, but it's really hard to tell.

Yup,I think I see one on there as well
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Here's one. Man it took me a bit to find another. Nice silencers on guy at left

 

 

The U.S. Marines salute the U.S. Coast Guard after the fury of battle had subsided and the Japanese on Guam had been defeated. "They (the Coast Guard) Put Us Here and We Intend to Stay" is the way the Marines felt about it., ca. 08/1944.

Photo by The U.S. National Archives on Flickr

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Gotta love this one, a grizzled combat Marine on Tarawa. He appears to be wearing a P1917 dog tag with an HBT neck cord. And the backwards helmet :)

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Nice! Thanks for adding that one Phil. I love that one

 

Here is another of a GI on the canal. Wearing NOK tag with what looks to be a tetanus date as well

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Carlson's raiders on the Canal. Not sure how that luger got there but he is wearing a nice set of what looks to be a M-1941 oval set.

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More silencers on Bougainville.

 

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Marine Raiders and some of their dogs on Bougainville. After a year of organization and training, the 1st Marine War Dog Platoon entered action on the island on November 1st, 1943. While the Army had put war dogs to good use already, mainly for sentry and guard duties, this was the first organized deployment of canine warriors by the Marine Corps, and the Marines intended to bring the dogs into the field, sniffing out enemy positions to warn of ambushes.

(National Archives)

 

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Black marines at Saipan wearing yellow-monel M-1942 tags on hbt cord?

 

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Four U.S. Marines are seen as they take a time out from supplying ammunition to the frontlines, during the invasion of Saipan, in the Mariana Islands, on August 31, 1944.

Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS

 

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NOK tags on GI in New Guinea. Can't tell if there is a tetanus date

 

WWII: NEW GUINEA, c1943. /nMedics operating on a wounded American soldier in New Guinea. Photograph, c1943.

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