Tag, Dog
Tag, Dog
Tag, Dog

Tag, Dog

Object number2018.132.12
Date1943-1945
MediumMetal
Credit LineGift of Steven W. Hays
DescriptionPair of dog tags on connected metal ball chain necklace and bracelet. Dog tags are each a rounded rectangular, flat silver metal tag with impressed wearer information. Each dog tag has a notch on the viewer's left edge. One dog tag is connected to a silver metal link chain necklace and one dog tag is connected to a silver metal link chain bracelet; the bracelet is looped through the necklace.DimensionsLength x Width x Depth: 16.625 x 1.125 x 0.25 in. (42.2 x 2.9 x 0.6 cm)
Height x Width x Depth (Each dog tag): 1.125 x 2 x 0.063 in. (2.9 x 5.1 x 0.2 cm)
InscriptionsEach tag has impressed text "WALTER J G HAYS, JR / 33667559 T43-45 0 / P".
Historical NotesPart of a collection that documents donor Steven W. Hays' father, Walter J. G. Hays, Jr.'s service in WWII. Walter J. G Hays, Jr. grew up at 5100 Bayard Street in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and attended Shady Side Academy. After high school he began to work at Sewickley Ice Company, which his father, William J. G. Hays, Sr., owned. Walter was drafted in 1943, trained in Bloomington, Illinois (where he met his future wife) and then was deployed to England. He trained for six months in England before participating in D-Day as well as the Battle of the Bulge, where he was wounded and received a Purple Heart. He ended his service in Berlin where his group was relieved by MP troops who came to keep peace in Berlin after the war. When he returned to the States he first went back to Bloomington to marry Lucille Nagrass, who he met when he was stationed there, and then returned to Pittsburgh and his job at the ice plant. While he was in the service he worked in refrigeration repair and served in the 3712th Quartermaster Truck Company.
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