Identification tags worn by Lt. Louise Lomax
date: label: Date
content: 1943-1953
name: label: Manufactured by
content: Unidentified
label: Distributed by
content: United States Army Air Force, American, 1941 - 1947
label: Owned by
content: Louise Virginia Lomax, American, 1920 - 2011
notes: label: Caption
content: Louise Virginia Lomax joined the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) as a 2nd Lieutenant in March 1943. Upon joining the ANC, Lt. Lomax was issued this identification tag, also called a "dog tag," which listed important identifying information including her name, her Army Serial Number (N-760431), the date of her most recent Tetanus shot, her blood type, and her religious affiliation.
label: Caption
content: After training as a psychiatric nurse at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., Lt. Lomax was stationed at Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama, home of the Tuskegee Airmen, by September 1943. Lomax remained at Tuskegee during the war, where she was eventually promoted to 1st Lieutenant.
label: Caption
content: After the war, Lt. Lomax went on to serve at Lockbourne Army Air Base in Ohio; Provident Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland; at VA hospitals in Downey, Illinois; and Perry Point, Maryland; and finally at the Army’s Percy Jones General Hospital in Battle Creek, Michigan. Lt. Lomax retired from active duty in March 1949 and transferred to the Reserve Corps. After four years in the Reserves, Lt. Lomax was honorably discharged from the Army Nurse Corps in April 1953.
label: Description
content: Identification tag (dog tags) owned by Lt. Louise Lomax, Army Nurse Corps. The metal tags are attached to a metal chain. The tag is embossed with Lt. Lomax’s name, serial number, and blood type.
place: label: Place used
content: Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Medicine
label: Topic
content: Military
label: Topic
content: Nursing
label: Topic
content: Segregation
label: Topic
content: Tuskegee Airmen
label: Topic
content: U.S. History, 1945-1953
label: Topic
content: Women
label: Topic
content: World War II
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Awards, Medals, and Insignia
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Pia Marie Winters Jordan in memory of her mother, First Lieutenant Louise Virginia Lomax Winters, Army Nurse Corps; and her uncle, Sgt. Henry James Lomax, U.S. Army
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2022.42.3
objectType: label: Type
content: dog tags
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: No known copyright restrictions
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: metal
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (tag): 1 × 1 3/4 in. (2.5 × 4.5 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (chain): 13 3/4 × 3/16 in. (35 × 0.4 cm)