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old dog tag?
ole44
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not sure what this is death tag or dog tag, there is a finger print on the back. hope the picture works not sure how to do this. it from 12-5-19 to 11-11-96 if my pic does not work maybe someone could help the ole dog out
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Vintage Military tags were heavy stamped block letters pressed out in a machine.
Look under the middle initial "M", reading sideways, top to bottom and you see a U S N.
Could the dates possibly be 1819 and 1896 ?
Then the fingerprint hints of WWII- http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq70-2.htm
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
Its what funeral homes tag bodies with just incase I.D is needed due to body showing up again ie. floods, excavation etc.
This makes the most sense, as the tag is dated. What is puzzling is that the hole does not have the same patina as the rest of the tag. May well have been one of the thousands of caskets that hurricane Katrina floated up, or some other circumstance.
http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/great-war-on-land/73-weapons-equipment-uniforms/1033-identifying-dead-short-study-identification-tags-1914-1918.html
What is puzzling is that the hole does not have the same patina as the rest of the tag.Could be recent wear due to it dangling from some sort of ring or carrier.
look like his birth date was 1896 and he enlisted in the USN in 1919, put him in WW2
All we know for sure is that he served in the post-WWI era.
Even if you assume he became a lifer he was eligible for retirement prior to WWII breaking out.