Rumanian Army Dog-Tag

And another one, also from eBay.

I have noticed that all of these German style Romanian dog tags being dug up at Stalingrad are all together. Both halves complete. Most of the German ones found at the diggings are only half pieces. It is apparent that when they find these tags, there are bodies attached to them. The perferation holes in the middle of the tag is so that one could bend the tag and seperate the two halves leaving one usually imbedded in a dead soldiers mouth for identification. The other piece to return home for identification and verification of the dead. A practiced used by the Germans and the US during WW2 but I do not see that this practiced was used by the Romanian military as all these dog tags are dug up completly in tack.

Probably because there was no one to do this left around. There were many cases of encirclements, attacks and counterattacks in the Stalingrad area. Soldiers could have easily been killed, either after being taken POWs by Soviets (wounded were shot, as they could not march; soldiers that lagged behind teh POW columns were also shot) or simply killed during a failed counterattack and freindly forces had to retreat.

You are correct, the same seller is always offering them. I also too wondered if he has been taking them off of remains and not informing the authorities.

On my behalf, I am wandering that there is still something remained to be looted.
Most cemeteries with Axis soldiers were vandalized in the immediate aftermath of the war. The crosses were used as wood for fire. You know, in Russia is cold a half of year.

A cross-shaped dog tag (on eBay):


Col. Dénes

Awards of Cpt. Constantin Dimancea (from La Galerie Numismatique)

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A better image, than that shown in your group photo (upper left corner), is in the attachment (which is a personal photo).

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(from eBay)

Need help with these blank Romanian Dog-Tags as you can see from this picture they are market ROMÂNIA.
They are made from aluminum 1mm thick and 33mm in diameter the hole is 2 mm in diameter.


Now because they are marked with  and not Î makes me think they are Romanian WWII or modern replicas but because they didn’t hit the market in big numbers makes me think they are authentic. I don’t collect dog tags so I don’t know how they suppose to look but these are similar to the one posted by Regal Uniforma Collector on the first page of this topic.

Hi mihnea,
As far as i can guess ( only guess!) those dogtags were casted from a metal, i`m not sure if it`s alluminium but i have a lot of coins from ww2 era from the same material. After the blanks were produced they were introduced in a machinery that stamped( a.k.a. engraved) them with a series of tetters and noumbers.
I`we seen simmilar dogtatgs stamped and unstamped and i think they are original, but kinda useless

It's impossible to cast such small items from aluminum with this precision; Romanian WWII era coins were not made from aluminum but a alloy they oxidized to a dark blue color.

These dog tags are stamped from sheets of aluminum like coins.

Based on your thinking unissued WWII boots are "kinda useless".

Any more relevant opinions on this subject?

A better picture:

Well, you can`t reenact with them

Is it possible to make identifications from the dog tags being found in Russia ? Are these records available for research ? I recently aquired a dog tag from Russia. This tag was very interesting as it also included the soldiers name. I wonder if this soldier made it out alive and back to Romania ?

Infantry Regiment 29, enlisted 1937, ID number 2483, Soldier Ion Manole.





This post has been edited by REGAL UNIFORMA COLECTOR on May 01, 2010 02:35 pm

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