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ARMY SERIAL NUMBERS

Army Serial Numbers (ASN) are part of an official designation, and will appear in every military record, in which the name of the holder appears, i.e. in all documents – so, special care should be taken that the correct ASN be used at all times, since certain records are filed this way, and payments and/or allowances are often settled by Army Serial Number, and not by name – it is always used by servicemen, and, trust me, almost every Veteran still remembers his individual Army Serial Number …



Regular Army (1940)



National Guard (1940)


Draftees (1940)



Commissioned Officers (1921)


Warrant Officers (1942)




Flight Officers (1942)

Army Specialist Corps (1942)

Army Nurse Corps (1921)


Hospital Dietitian +
Physical Therapist (1942)

Contract Surgeon (1941)

WAC (1943)
start with digit 1, followed by a second digit (indicating Corps Area/Service Cd) (there were 9 Corps Area for military administrative purposes, and 4 Army Areas for strategical military purposes) 11130295, 13176244, 14130598, 16087357, 19005129

start with digits 20, followed by a third digit (indicating Corps Area/Service Cd) 20417243, 20468791, 20651726, 20900697, 20906536

start with digit 3, followed by a second digit (indicating Corps Area/Service Cd) 31130734, 31240869, 34834714, 35388430, 39407665 (these were draftees called up the Selective Training & Service Act)

start with prefix O, followed by hyphen + series of 1 > 6, even 7 digits (1921 box includes 1 to 99,999 - 1940 box starts with 23,000) O-57, O-742, O-3822, O-777657, O-1170276

start with prefix W, followed or not by hyphen + series of 7 digits, starting with 21 such as W 2101199, W-2118310, W-2129700, W 2125908, W 2133860 (while most ID Tags start with first digits 21, other show different numbers, such as W-92186, W 901800, most probably Officers already commissioned between the war years, 1920-1930)

start with prefix T, followed by a series of digits T-80, T 1846, T-6367, T-136265, T 223076

start with prefix S, followed by a series of digits S 1038451

start with prefix N, followed by a series of 6 digits (box with group of 700.000) N 702927, N-782136, N 795100, N-795163

HD start with prefix R, while PT start with prefix M, followed by a series of digits R ……
M ……

start with prefix CS, followed by a series of digits CS......

start with prefix L (officer) L-918042, A (soldier) A-205333 and V (W.O.) V-704827, followed by a series of 6 digits, of which the first indicated the Service Cd

Ridley Scott a écrit:C'est bon Voila un générateur de numéros:http://easy506th.netfirms.com/asngen.php

Ridley Scott a écrit:Mais je ne comprend pas non plus la difference entre regular army et draftees,car je ne suis pas super super en anglais!Et certains site se contredisent sur certain point (voir messages pages precedentes)!

aymer506th a écrit:

Ridley Scott a écrit:Mais je ne comprend pas non plus la difference entre regular army et draftees,car je ne suis pas super super en anglais!Et certains site se contredisent sur certain point (voir messages pages precedentes)!

Regular Army : Armée régulière
Draftees : Recrues

Alors je pense que ceux qui était dans l'armée régulière c'est ceux qui étaient déjà militaire avant le début de l'entrée en guerre des USA, et les recrues c'est ceux qui se sont engagés suite à l'entrée en guerre des USA. Mais je demande confirmation car pas sur.