Lost Dog Tags Vietnam

The april 2002 issue of vietnam magazine carried an article about the 1 444 dog tags that an american tourist had purchased from shops and street vendors in hue city socialist republic of vietnam srv in 1994.

Lost dog tags vietnam.

Each dog tag lists a servicemember s name military branch and date of death. The two way lanny martinson was a 23 year old marine sergeant in vietnam when he last saw his dog tags. Corrine king paused to soak in above and beyond an art exhibit featuring more than 58 000 dog tags one for each american killed in the vietnam war. Lost in 1968 battle marine s dog tag found again.

See more details about our army dog tags 1954 1967 vietnam war era or customize buy dog tags using the us army 54 67 vietnam dog tag template now. On tuesday morning a motorcycle rolled up to the flatline customs continue reading. In the 45 years since he thought they. The tourist a former army nurse hoped that the dog tags might lead to the recovery and identification of some of the then 2 400 now less than 1 850 american soldiers.

The firsthand details of when where and how service members lost their dog tags is fascinating.