• MILITARY DOG TAG EMBOSSING •

The old Model 70 Addressograph was a pistol-type imprinting machine used by the Medical Department during WWII.  Its function was to transfer the wounded soldier's identification information directly from his dog tags to his medical records.  The notch in the dog tag would align and hold the tag securely in the Addressograph.  First the dog tag was inserted into the imprinting machine.  After the medical document was aligned in the "Addressograph", the trigger on the imprinting machine was pulled and the information on the dog tag was transferred to the medical document through the ribbon of carbon paper located inside the Addressograph.  Much the same way as imprinting your credit card information on a sales receipt. 

Unlike most dog tag sites on the internet today, we do not "de-boss" your tags, or "emboss them backwards".  Like our Military, we correctly emboss them toward the front of the tag to allow the information to be transfered by imprinting properly.  The rolled edge, crimping, is toward the back leaving you a cleaner look too.

Simply put - there is NO other use for the notch and the military engineers that drafted the specifications and drawings for the military identification tags known as dog tags had no other intentions when they designed in the "notch" other than for the Addressograph Model 70.