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My sister and niece found this dog tag while treasure hunting along the beach off the old Meigs feild airport [now a park] in Chicago. They would like to find the soldiers family if possible.
Ray

Looks like it was in a fire.

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Scott Dunkirk
AZGCLHU Inc.

http://arizonagroundcrew.org/

1940's Army Air Force ground crew living history
(A 501 C 3 organization)
(IYAMYAS)

"Yes sir, it's suppose to look like that"

Thanks, I'll forward that to them.
Ray

Seems like it is pre-WW2:

https://www.defense.gov/Explore/Inside- ... e-started/

It's a WW1 dog tag. They were all hand-stamped like that at the unit or individual solider level. It's aluminum, right?
I wish you luck finding the family as you don't appear to have a complete service number or unit marked and the name is very common. Chicago was even more of a transport hub back then than it is now as a lot of railroads came through the area. A doughboy could have laid over there between troop trains on his way to some other part of the country (maybe even the east coast for a ship to France, but like in WW2, many WW1 soldiers never left the country).

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Life member, 91st BG Memorial Association
Owner, 1944 Willys MB #366014
Former REMF (US Army, O3)

Northerly Island didn't have an airport until after WW2. Northerly Island was the site of the Century of Progress exhibition (1933–34) in Chicago. Maybe a visiting soldier lost it when attending the exhibition?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meigs_Field