Metal detecting in Germany (worldwar 2)

[Hannibal Smith]

Thank you for your answers.
But why is his Dogtag in Germany and he´s died in mindoro??
Someone told me that he is born at 1924.

Best regrads
Max

 

[TXWolfie]

ok did a little internet searching and so far I found out this person was regular army from 5th corps area (Ohio-West Virginia-Indiana-Kentucky) HQ=Ft. Hayes, Ohio. And it was an 3rd type dogtags from WWII this generation of tags started 1940. All serial numbers start with digit 1, while the second digit indicates Corps Area or Service Command. The War Department allotted a sequence of 100,000 numbers to each “Department”, and a series of 1,000,000 numbers to each “Corps” or “Service Command” .

 

[philddreamer]

To make matters a bit more puzzling, the information @ this site:
http://aad.archives.gov/aad/display-partial-records.jsp?dt=893&mtch=1&q=&cat=WR26&tf=F&bc=,sl,fd&txt_24995=Broderick+Walter+D&op_24995=0&nfo_24995=V,24,1900&sc=24994,24995,24996,24998,24997,24993,24981,24983&rpp=10&sort=24981 desc

states that he enlisted in 1946, yet he was a scout in the Phillipines...

Phil