WWII VETS - were you ever re-issued dog-tags?

[Walt's Daughter]

Another response from Eric at the Office of History...

 

Marion,

 

This does confirm the quartermaster role. Interesting that the one document

does not refer to religion, which was put on the tags. I remember listening

to an oral history interview where a Jewish GI captured during the bulge

threw away his tags to conceal this, and was admonished by a fellow GI that

he had "broken a rule." Of course his reaction was there are more important

things to worry about at that point than rules. Whether throwing away the

tags did it or not, this fellow at least was never identified as Jewish.

 

-Eric