A few words about "The Liberator" dog tags

I’ve sent a question about what was on the dog tag and how close it was to an actual tag of WWII a few times, but Bradley decided to pass it, although I’m glad he showed his tag during one of the Instagram lives. As you can see, the tag used in the series are pretty accurate to what the US soldiers used to have during the WWII (although I was confused with four lines on the tags, not five).

In 1939 tags' shape was changed from round to the rectangular with a notch added for positioning in transcription device. Service numbers (line 2) were issued as a result of growing number of men with common names. Lines 3 to 5 were used for emergency contacts info.

In November of 1941 tags got blood type info, T letter by service number to put information on when the tetanus shot was administered (T letter would have been dropped if blood type was AB), and also religious codes were added (P – Protestant, C – Catholic, H – Hebrew).

As of July 20, 1943 emergency contacts info has been removed and all soldiers were issued the new tags. That was made as a precaution, to prevent the enemy from intimidating captured soldiers by locating and threatening their families. The last changes were made on March 31, 1944, when the sequence of the name changed to ‘Last name, First name’.

So it looks like @bradleyjames has a tag for 1941-1943 period. First line on his tag obviously says ‘Felix L. Sparks’. Second is too blurry, but you can see extension with T. Third looks like ‘F. Sparks’ (?) – probably his father, Felix Franklin Sparks. A picture @themrpalma has posted in his stories shows a very clear image of his own tag, which is also missing line 4, having only city and state mentioned on line 4 instead of 5.

Info and pictures of tags cr: mydogtag.com