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[StartQuote] Frank, What you discribed is what I thought the dog tags would be like. Before I put them on the first page with my father in laws name, kind of like art for the first page. I thought I should make sure thats how they looked. What I was reading, was in 1943 they had two holes, they were more round than oblong and that they were not issued a beaded chain. They wove there own or a ribbon type material. There were two, one with two holes and one with one hole, the one with two holes was first, the second one had one hole because it was last on the ribbon. As I understand what I read, one to stay with the body in case of death, one to be taken for documenting purposes. I would love for a veteran to jump in on this, I wondered if because they were not issued chains and they had to pay for them if they wanted one. Being the depression, maybe they didnt wear them around their neck with a chain as much as we think.? If they were on a ribbon,or hand woven material by the owner, with the heat and bugs, who would want that around their neck? I read they could or would wear them on their wrist. Same thing, doesnt sound practical. I went to ebay, dog tag's for sale for that time period, look like I discribed I read about. Come on Veterans, how was it? Julie [EndQuote]
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