Service members wear military identification tags (aka "dog tags") so they can be positively and easily recognized if they're too wounded to speak or killed in action. The most current version is oval ...

Marian Cook Haddock keeps a weathered picture of her uncle Pete in the living room of her home in New Bern, North Carolina. Pete, in a freshly starched khaki uniform, gazes confidently at the camera.

In the days long before military dog tags were even a thought, U.S. Army officers at the attack on Confederate fortifications at Cold Harbor, Virginia, noticed troops sewing their names into their ...

A 33-year-old French historian has been sentenced to a year in prison for stealing hundreds of dog tags belonging to U.S. service members killed during World War II from the National Archives in ...

Was the simple notch on a WWII dog tag simply a design quirk, or was it an act of battlefield engineering in disguise? For decades, myths have circulated around this small indentation some stating it ...

Hundreds of World War II dog tags disappeared for years as Antonin DeHays constantly visited the National Archives. On Monday, the 33-year-old historian was sentenced in federal court to 364 days in ...

WIESBADEN, Germany – Local German Simon Krieger-Pleus discovered a pair of World War II U.S. military identification tags during a nature walk through the prominent trails in July. As the eldest son ...

ANDERSON, Ind.–The dog tags belonging to a World War II veteran from Anderson were returned to his family on Monday. Dog tags are an informal but common terms for identification tags worn by military ...

Porterville's Jill Waddle readily admits she thought the initial Facebook instant message from Sebastian Vatin was a scam. In the message, Vatin said he was in possession of a dog tag, the metallic ...

A Virginia National Guard sergeant was sentenced to 18 months of supervised probation for stealing World War II-era dog tags from the National Archives and Records Administration in College Park, Md., ...

Old and battered dog tags found in a cave in the South Pacific may crack a 70-year-old mystery. The dog tags are those of a 31-year-old Army infantryman from New York named Bernard Gavrin. He was ...