Unknown dog tag style and era - Any ideas?

[stratasfan]

Hi! Just picked these up at a flea market while we were on vacation. However, I've never seen one shaped like this, and can't find anything that matches online. Any thoughts on era and branch? It has the guy's name and "USA" on the front and service number on the back. The second one is a matching blank.

 

Any thoughts would be appreciated! Thanks!

Elizabeth

 

 

[BILL THE PATCH]

Looks like ww1 to me.

 

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[crotalus358]

If I recall correctly, this style of tag is immediately post WWI (model M21 is on the tip of my tongue), with that loop extension. Unfortunately, my copy of Braddock's dogtag book is buried in a moving box at the momment.

[stratasfan]

I was guessing it would be 20s, but can't find anything that looks like this online yet!

[crotalus358]

If anyone has Braddock's book handy, he has some good references to this style, as well as some examples. If I can get to the box that my copy is in, I'll see about posting some pics. I will say that these interwar examples don't turn up too often, which correlates with the size of the US Army during that timeframe.

[USdog]

It is an M1924 dog tag. Used them up until WWII. Judging by the serial number it was probably issued to someone just Pre-WWII

[stratasfan]

Oh, thanks! I looked some up by that number and found a few online. One I found online was for a guy who enlisted in 1940. If you enlisted in 1939, would you have had this style of tag?

 

Thanks ever so!

[stratasfan]

One more question! For someone who joined the Army Air Corps in 1939 . . . what would it have said? number on one side, I assume, but what would it have with the name on the other side? As I assume the "USA" means US Army". What would Air Corps have had?

[stratasfan]

OK . . . so I think I read somewhere that the 8-digit number came out in 1940. I typed the number on the back of this tag into the WWII Army Enlistment records on NARA website, and it gave me a result for someone with an entirely different name. ?! Any thoughts on that?

[USdog]

For 1939 you would have this tag. And I think an air corps veteran would have USAAC instead of USA on the tags but cannot say for sure.

[doyler]

There is a book on tags by Paul Braddock

 

https://www.amazon.com/Dog-Tags-American-Military-Identification/dp/B00540FWK4/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1544758948&sr=1-3&keywords=Paul+Braddock

[crotalus358]

This is a great book for anyone that has an interest in the development of dog tags, and the modifications/data variants out there.

[USdog]

Agreed

 

 

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