Were dog tags placed in the mouth of dead soliders?

Answer 1

Yes, as others mentioned...in the past but no longer.

Dog tags used to have a notch in one of them to place between the front teeth and kick the lower jaw jamming the tag in place.

The current dog tags dont have a notch.

Answer 2

As most dead people dont die with their mouths tightly closed, One dog-tag is slipped between the teeth into the mouth, there is no kicking or using of hammers to place the tag in the mouth.

The reason the tag is placed in the mouth is so that when the body is shipped back to the Graves regestration units they can id the soldier, especially if the body has been recovered from a temporary grave out in the field.

The second dog tag goes back to the soldiers Company HQ and remains in his file for the paper-work to be completed.

Most soldiers wear a set of spare tags laced into the right and left boot laces in case they are decapitated and the tags on the neck get lost.

I believe the modern dog-tags of today are chip encoded.

Answer 3

A mallet or hammer is used to jam the dog tags into the jaw of the deceased soldier. This prevented the dog tags from being lost and along with it the soldiers identity. Since the advent of DNA identification this method is no longer in use.

Answer 4

the dog tags are place in between two teeth in the solder's mouth. and yes dog tag are still used today despite technology.

Answer 5

Before we had the technology that was used to ID the solider it isn't practiced now. Warchild!

Answer 6

YES, During WWII because they did not have the technology that we have today to identify bodies!!

Answer 7

yes