Air Corps officer's dog tags & badge. Please help

[Kilroy56]

Dear Forum ,

I did my homework but found no information about Jack J. Broten.

Could you please help ?

Thank you,

Dominique

[lettow]

It would be helpful to know what homework you did so others are not spending their time looking in the same places only to also find nothing.

[AustinO]

Dom, couldn't find much on him. Family was from Minnesota but he was born and lived his whole life in Washington state, died out there in 2003.

[Kilroy56]

Thank you for your inputs Gentlemen.

Jim is correct of course.

NARA , ABMC & Find a grave websites have been searched without success.

Any information welcome...

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[Kilroy56]

Your assistance is once again highly appreciated.

Thanks a lot,

Dominique

[aznation]

You're welcome. I've searched pretty thoroughly but couldn't come up with anything else. I'm kind of surprised I couldn't find more. After all, he was an officer. Maybe someone else will be able to come up with something. Anyway, nice tags and I.D.

[Kilroy56]

Thank you.

According to the seller Jack Broten was a bombardier and served with the 13 th AF...

[ram957]

I can find more on his father (Fold3), Christian Adolph Broten than Jack.

[Kilroy56]

I am with you. Rather strange...

Especially since he supposedly an AM and a DFC...

[Kilroy56]

Please read he supposedly received...

[KASTAUFFER]

The ID is an Air Cadet name badge they wore during training.

 

Kurt