Wharfmaster Posted February 15, 2014 Share #1 Posted February 15, 2014 Found this POW dog tag in a local antique shop. Unfortunately, nothing else with it. Stalag VIII B Lansdorf, later changed to 344, held POWs from nearly all Allied Nations. To include some Yanks. I will probably never know who it belonged to, but you don't find POW tags every day. They are worth picking up when found reasonably. W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellasilva Posted February 15, 2014 Share #2 Posted February 15, 2014 Nice find!! I've still never come across one of these Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KASTAUFFER Posted February 15, 2014 Share #3 Posted February 15, 2014 The highest probability is that this tag was issued to a British or Canadian POW. Very few Americans were in this camp. I do have 1 piece of POW mail from an American in this camp. Kurt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wharfmaster Posted February 15, 2014 Author Share #4 Posted February 15, 2014 Thanks guys, this is the only POW dog tag I have found in an antique shop in years of collecting. It is indeed possible that the man was a Canadian or a Yank flying with the RCAF. W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KASTAUFFER Posted February 15, 2014 Share #5 Posted February 15, 2014 On this website you can search by POW ID for RAF/RCAF personnel http://www.rafcommands.com/Ross/Air%20Force%20PoWs/RAF%20POWs%20Query%20C_1.html I didn't find 40336. Good chance he was a ground guy. That would make sense for 344. Most aviation personnel would have gone to a Luft Stalag. Kurt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wharfmaster Posted February 15, 2014 Author Share #6 Posted February 15, 2014 Cool, Thanks much ! Was your 344 POW Mail Soldier a ground guy ? W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KASTAUFFER Posted February 15, 2014 Share #7 Posted February 15, 2014 He was, and captured late in the war, Kurt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1st Sgt CES Posted April 6, 2014 Share #8 Posted April 6, 2014 Nice Tag----I hope to find one someday ! Blue Skies Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kindzjal Posted April 23, 2014 Share #9 Posted April 23, 2014 I will probably never know who it belonged to, but you don't find POW tags every day. They are worth picking up when found reasonably. W I am afraid that Your dog tag was never issued to a POW. This dog tag has been found in Lamsdorf some 10 Years ago together with other houndreds 344 dog tags at the place where the German guards had their compaund untill 1945. Bestreg. kindzjal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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