- Messages
- 13,468
- Location
- Orange County, CA
Not mine, but could someone decrypt this?
The first two or three digits of the Army Serial Number (ASN) denote status (Regular Army =1, National Guard = 20, Draftee =3) and area of origin. The letter on the far right denotes blood type and the letter in the corner denotes religion (P = Protestant, RC = Roman Catholic, H = Hebrew or Jewish)
From the looks of it, our man was a draftee from the Southeastern part of the US (second digit 4 = 4th Army Corps Area -- prewar Army administrative area), Blood Type O and of the Protestant faith. The dog tag was issued sometime between July 1943 and March 1944.
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