A rare Civil War identification tag from a soldier who was wounded at the Battle of Monocacy in 1864 has been donated to the National Park Service. Samuel M. Weigel, a private with Company G of ...

Initially, U.S. military identification tags were military-grade disks about the size of a half-dollar. They bore the servicemember's name, rank, and unit information.

In January 2019, tags for Army and Air Force service members started including the same information — the soldier's name, Defense Department ID number, blood type, and religious preference.

About 1,200 Union soldiers were killed or wounded in the battle. Civil War ID badges that survive are rare, the Park Service said. There were no government-issued military “dog tags” during ...

Officials have accounted for the remains of a United States Army soldier from Alabama who was killed during World War II — eight decades after a German officer handed over his identification tags.

A military ID tag lost in Italy during WWII has made its way back to the United States, and it happened with the help of a man right in the Miami Valley.

HUNTINGTON, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)-- A decorated Vietnam War veteran from Long Island finally has his dog tags back. Dennis Kostendader lost the military ID tags during combat in 1967. They were ...

war excavation-Turkey SEOUL, June 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korea has returned the identification tag of a Turkish soldier who died 74 years ago while serving in the 1950-53 Korean War, to his bereaved ...

I’m from the UK and recently found a U.S. military ID tag belonging to Jim H. Flanagan who before World War II was a resident of Carbon Hill,” Forman wrote in the post.

Initially, U.S. military identification tags were military-grade disks about the size of a half-dollar. They bore the servicemember's name, rank, and unit information.

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