{"id":599,"date":"2017-09-22T18:57:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T18:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/?page_id=599"},"modified":"2017-09-22T19:05:14","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T19:05:14","slug":"army-serial-number","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/things\/army-serial-number\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Service Number"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All Army personnel in World War II were assigned a unique Army Service Number, or A.S.N. \u00a0These Service \u00a0Numbers were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amyjohnsoncrow.com\/how-to-decode-a-wwii-army-serial-number\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not completely random, but utilized an identification system.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_595\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-595\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/September-7-1943-Santa-Ana-California.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-595\" src=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/September-7-1943-Santa-Ana-California-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"September 7, 1943, Santa Ana, California\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/September-7-1943-Santa-Ana-California-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/September-7-1943-Santa-Ana-California.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-595\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">September 7, 1943, Santa Ana, California. Tom Cartmell&#8217;s return address using his Army Service Number.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tom Cartmell&#8217;s A.S.N. was 16136631.<\/p>\n<p>The first digit (1) indicated that Tom had volunteered for the Army. The second digit (6) showed that he had joined the Army from the state of Illinois, Michigan or Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Service_number_%28United_States_Army%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ref: Wikipedia: Service Number (United States Army)<\/a><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Army personnel in World War II were assigned a unique Army Service Number, or A.S.N. \u00a0These Service \u00a0Numbers were not completely random, but utilized an identification system. Tom Cartmell&#8217;s A.S.N. was 16136631. The first digit (1) indicated that Tom had volunteered for the Army. The second digit (6) showed that he had joined the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/things\/army-serial-number\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Army Service Number<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":57,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/599\/revisions\/604"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}