I have a ww2 dog tag and wanted to find out about the soldier but its harder than it seems to find any infomation the dog tag says BEHNKEN, PERRY E RA-15236407 A P Any help would be greatly received Thanks
An American tag, presumably? No 'T' number on it? As a guess,therefore, I'd say there was no 'notch' in it either, making it a post-1960 issue (but pre-July 1969 numbering change) However, to 'translate'... BEHNKEN, PERRY E ... the owner's name RA-15236407 ...... his 'Regular Army' number ('RA' usually indicates post-WW2...most RA prefixed tags I've encountered are Korean and Vietnam war era, but the Korean war ones still have the WW2 style 'T' date).Number would (if it did happen to be WW2) indicate his origins being in the 5th Corps area (Ohio, W.Virginia, Indiana, Kentucky). Not sure if this remained the same post-war A .......his blood group P ....... his religion (protestant)
Post 1960 (top one is post July 1969 and the middle one still has the RA prefix (but the 'T' date has now gone) .......
I have taken a photo of the dog tag but i am having trouble posting it do you have an email address that i could send it to so that you could have a look please?
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National archive page for your post-WW2 soldier NARA - AAD - Display Full Records - Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938 - 1946 (Enlistment Records)
An American tag, presumably? No 'T' number on it? As a guess,therefore, I'd say there was no 'notch' in it either, making it a post-1960 issue (but pre-July 1969 numbering change) However, to 'translate'... BEHNKEN, PERRY E ... the owner's name RA-15236407 ...... his 'Regular Army' number ('RA' usually indicates post-WW2...most RA prefixed tags I've encountered are Korean and Vietnam war era, but the Korean war ones still have the WW2 style 'T' date).Number would (if it did happen to be WW2) indicate his origins being in the 5th Corps area (Ohio, W.Virginia, Indiana, Kentucky). Not sure if this remained the same post-war A .......his blood group P ....... his religion (protestant) To add to this information concerning US dog tags, there were several prefixes for the service numbers; US - the service member is a draftee NG - the service member is a National Guardsman ER - the service member is a member of the Enlisted Reserve Also, the service number has been replaced with the individuals social security number, and all the prefixes have been dropped. Recently there was a move within the US military to discontinue the use of dog tags altogether. The bean counters deemed them outdated and obsolete, favoring microchips implanted with pertinent information of the service member in question. The old generals went ballistic over this measure and dog tags were retained.
