Object Details
- Description
- Physical Description
- Printed paper.
- General History
- The Geneva Convention provides: "Each Party to a conflict is required to furnish the persons under its jurisdiction who are liable to become prisoners of war, with an identity card showing the owner's surname, first names, rank, army, regimental, personal or serial number or equivalent information, and date of birth. The identity card may, furthermore, bear the signature or the fingerprints, or both, of the owner, and may bear, as well, any other information the Party to the conflict may wish to add concerning persons belonging to its armed forces. As far as possible the card shall measure 6.5 x 10 cm. and shall be issued in duplicate. The identity card shall be shown by the prisoner of war upon demand, but may in no case be taken away from him."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Captain William K. Emerson, USA
- date issued
- after 1964
- ID Number
- AF.76359M
- catalog number
- 76359M
- accession number
- 303435
- Object Name
- card
- Other Terms
- card; Army
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in; 6.35 cm x 8.89 cm
- See more items in
- Military and Society: Armed Forces History, General
- Military
- ThinkFinity
- National Museum of American History
- related event
- Vietnam War
- Postwar United States
- Record ID
- nmah_443819
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a2-709a-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
