6 months earlier.
Is that the one where Adam is on the horse? If so, Dick isn’t in uniform.
In 1962, just before the Cuban Missile Crisis, the told party girl Joy that he was 36, so that sounds about right.
Plenty of kids lied about their age to get into the service during WWII, especially if they wanted to get the hell away from home. I don’t think Dick’s parents would have cared much. Seventeen–eighteen is possible.
They’re standing side by side, I think. I’ll go back and have another look at it.
It’s the horse picture. He’s not in uniform.
You’re right. He burned the one I was thinking of in Episode 01 05, “5G.” So far as I could see, it had nothing written on the back.
So, that clears that up!
I knew a girl in my freshmen year of college who did exactly that. She grew up in a very sheltered environment and never got the birds & bees talk, except as how to use feminine hygiene products I suppose; nor had she taken sex ed in high school. But all the abstinence stuff she’d been fed did nothing to weaken her hormones, so she got laid, got pregnant, and being fairly heavyset (and possibly always having had irregular periods) did not realize until she was in labor that she was pregnant.
It’s Don’s 40th. He remarks to Meagan that he (Dick) already had his 40th the previous year so he didn’t really care about the “landmark” birthday party.
“Anna”, not “Anne”.
From Wikipedia:
“Although Don celebrates his birthday on June 1, at the time of his birthday party in 1966 (Season 5: “A Little Kiss”), he says, “I turned 40 six months ago,” which means Dick Whitman was probably born sometime between December 1925 and the early months of 1926. Pete discovers from his friend Russ in the State Department that the real Don Draper would be 43 years old. (Season 1: “Nixon vs. Kennedy”) The 1960 presidential election was held on November 8, making the real Draper’s birth year 1917— thus making him eight or nine years older than Dick Whitman. On a business trip to Baltimore in March 1963, however, Don tells Shelly, a TWA stewardess, that today is his birthday, but showing his driver’s license will not help prove it (Season 3: “Out of Town”).”
I think it was generally established that Dick is really significantly younger than Don. Maybe (at best) keeping only the birthday but not the year. Hence the “6 months” accounts only for the difference in birthday.
Covered already, sorry.
A long time ago I read “The Great Imposter”, about Fredrick Demara, who was basically an early identity thief, and would often assume the credentials of real people (including, at one point, a navy-doctor aboard a ship during the Korean War).
One thing that was clear from that book was that stealing peoples identities was really easy in the 50’s. It was recent enough that bureaucracies relied on a lot of documents and ID’s, but long enough ago that the technology for actually double checking such documents or protecting them from theft/forgery wasn’t really there.
So just faking or stealing paperwork (or, I guess, dogtags) was easy, and if you had the right paperwork, people were unlikely to question your were who you said you were.
I read the book too, and saw the movie, along with the ones about Frank Abagnale. Frank says identity theft is actually easier today than it ever was, though I’ve yet to figure out how. 
Maybe so much stuff is electronically linked to Name/Date of Birth/Social Security numbers these days that a few bits of choice data offer the keys to the kingdom, so to speak, rather than having to physically falsify a bunch of documents. Just a guess though.
I think doing what Demara did, physically present yourself as another person, would be a lot harder now. Its a lot easier to double check peoples credentulials now, and lots of documents have photos on them.
But you can also do a lot more damage now by remotely presenting yourself as another person, simply because of online banking and the like. And its certainly easier to steal some random persons identity, without linking it to you. Demara knew a lot of the people whose certifications he lifted. Now you can buy thousands of strangers info from websites without any chance of the FBI linking you to the victim.