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.

Karen Finnerty didn’t know much about her late father’s time in World War II. And since his passing, Finnerty has searched for more ways to connect with her dad and his military service. She never ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We all know what dog tags are — those little disks on a chain that service members wear to identify themselves in combat. But have you ever wondered how and when that tradition started, and why ...

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 ...

GALLIPOLIS — Sitting on the couch inside the house where she grew up atop a hill in this Ohio River town, Jessica Varian’s eyes shine with unshed tears as she reads one more time the cursive words her ...

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., ...

BALTIMORE (CNN) --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 ...