snafu
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Post by snafu on Jan 26, 2012 15:08:08 GMT -5
did UN forces (under US comand) get the US identification stuff or did they use ther owen stuff?
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brigadepiron
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Post by brigadepiron on Jan 27, 2012 13:01:14 GMT -5
I can only answer for the Belgian-Luxembourg and British contingents which used their own types of ID bracelets. I assume this was the same for everyone. Even the Luxembourg soldiers used domestically produced ID badges!  |
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snafu
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Post by snafu on Jan 28, 2012 6:53:33 GMT -5
but if there are wounded? they come in an american aid station right? it just makes more sens to me that the UN forces get the us tags and stuff, if they get help in US field hospital's
mike
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Post by pop401k on Jan 28, 2012 10:16:44 GMT -5
Not trying to be snippy here, but the way that "makes sense" to us may not be the way it was...
About the only thing on a dog tag that would be of value to hospitals is blood type and, I'm not sure, but that MAY have been a part of every country's ID tags anyway, at least for industrialized countries.
Not being a medical person, but the first thing would probably be to start him on plasma and cross-type his blood if that info wasn't on his tags.
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brigadepiron
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Post by brigadepiron on Jan 28, 2012 12:13:19 GMT -5
Hmmm.. That's an interesting point. I think that really either should work, maybe even both simultaneously. If you look at the list below on Wiki, you'll see that the information is pretty standardised around the world: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_tag#BelgiumBP |
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arvp
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Post by arvp on Feb 1, 2012 3:33:36 GMT -5
In the 1950s the British army was using stainless steel ID discs in tropical regions. The fibre discs were still used in the UK. Whatever the material, these discs bore the following details: name, initials, number, religion.
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Post by digger on Feb 2, 2012 2:23:14 GMT -5
The Aussies changed from using Fibre ones to metal ones mid WW2. Mainly because after 1942-43 most of the 2nd AIF and Militia forces were deployed to the Jungles and the fibre discs just rotted away in no time. Regards Dig
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Post by sapper on Nov 28, 2016 13:13:07 GMT -5
After WW2 Canada went to a stainless steel one piece, square ID Tag that could be snapped in two. Bearing name, number, blood type and religion on the top part. The bottom half had no blood type as it was only broken off if the individual was KIA.
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