Tag, Dog
Tag, Dog
Tag, Dog

Tag, Dog

Object number2017.116.6
Date1944-1945
MediumMetal
Credit LineIn memory of Edward Ruglovsky
DescriptionPair of dog tags on a metal chain necklace. Dog tags are each a rounded rectangular, flat silver metal tag with impressed wearer information. Dog tags are connected to a silver metal link chain necklace with a silver metal crimper just above the tags.DimensionsLength x Width x Depth: 18.75 x 1.125 x 0.188 in. (47.6 x 2.9 x 0.5 cm)
InscriptionsFront of each dog tag has impressed text "RUGLOVSKY, EDWARD / 33715470 T44 44 AB / C".
Historical NotesPart of a collection of items documenting Edward Ruglovsky’s WWII service in the 10th Infantry Regiment and his industrial career at U. S. Steel. Ed Ruglovksy was with 10th as a combat infantryman from January 1944 through the war’s end, and through the campaigns to take Western Europe – Rhineland, Ardennes, Battle of the Bulge, etc. Ruglovsky said it was “the worst place to be” and that he spent a “year being absolutely terrified.” Some of these things he acquired by trading Russian soldiers for them at the end of the war, which fits with the reality that combat infantryman – while in active combat – were not able to collect and save much, so acquiring items from another soldier at war’s end fits with Ruglovsky’s history of service.
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