Red Ball Express Posted May 30, 2012 Share #126 Posted May 30, 2012 Love those tags! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KASTAUFFER Posted June 11, 2012 Author Share #127 Posted June 11, 2012 I just spent 3 hours going through a 288 page document on Ancestry.com that was a " movement order" listing POWs leaving France for the USA in June 1945 and listed both their US Service numbers and their POW ID numbers! I crosschecked my unidentified tags and got a hit The tag below was worn by a soldier with the 590th Field Artillery Bn , 106th Division. He was captured 12/21/44 during the Battle of the Bulge. His POW tag # 315770 from Stalag IVB matches the list below Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KASTAUFFER Posted June 11, 2012 Author Share #128 Posted June 11, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KASTAUFFER Posted June 11, 2012 Author Share #129 Posted June 11, 2012 And another hit. 1st Ranger Bn captured at Anzio . Held at Stalag IIA and IIB . Liberated at Stalag IIB . Its only 1/2 a tag, but I will take 1/2 a tag to a Ranger any day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEAST Posted June 11, 2012 Share #130 Posted June 11, 2012 I just spent 3 hours going through a 288 page document on Ancestry.com that was a " movement order" listing POWs leaving France for the USA in June 1945 and listed both their US Service numbers and their POW ID numbers! Oh dear.... I've been spending hours looking at their updated USMC roles researching some of my unioform groups. Looks like I'm going back in for a few more!! Kurt, I take it the document isn't searchable by POW numbers? Thanks for letting us know about this new tool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuftStalg1 Posted June 11, 2012 Share #131 Posted June 11, 2012 I just spent 3 hours going through a 288 page document on Ancestry.com that was a " movement order" listing POWs leaving France for the USA in June 1945 and listed both their US Service numbers and their POW ID numbers! I crosschecked my unidentified tags and got a hit The tag below was worn by a soldier with the 590th Field Artillery Bn , 106th Division. He was captured 12/21/44 during the Battle of the Bulge. His POW tag # 315770 from Stalag IVB matches the list below Zoinks! Wow, I guess I know how I will be spending today! Yesterday I just hit number 6220 of 11162 men on my SL1 list adding MACR's and other important data for my book. Maybe this will save me a trip to the Provost Marshals archives!? Way to go Kurt, my hero!!!! :salute: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuftStalg1 Posted June 11, 2012 Share #132 Posted June 11, 2012 OMG Kurt, in 10 minutes I have added more POW ID numbers to my list then in the last year! So far 100% they do follow the listing for the camp the individual was liberated from so if you know where your boy was liberated you can narrow it down a good bit by skimming and looking for your specific Camp. I have not checked any of the other ship names yet but I expect we will find many more of these list. :packin heat: Yeeehaaaaw! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KASTAUFFER Posted August 3, 2012 Author Share #133 Posted August 3, 2012 I just added a Stalag Luft 4 dogtag to my collection. Ive been looking for one for a while. The vet served with the 96th BG, 8th AAF . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V42 Posted December 20, 2012 Share #134 Posted December 20, 2012 Interesting pow information about the tags. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patriot12 Posted December 20, 2012 Share #135 Posted December 20, 2012 Very impressive collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uniforms of the Day Posted March 15, 2013 Share #136 Posted March 15, 2013 This particular topic is great Kurt. These objects live and breathe. It is an added element that unattributed items just don't have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vietvet7071 Posted March 30, 2013 Share #137 Posted March 30, 2013 This is one of the most interesting topics on the Forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KASTAUFFER Posted March 30, 2013 Author Share #138 Posted March 30, 2013 Glad you are enjoying the thread! I will have a new example to post here shortly. Kurt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgawne Posted April 2, 2013 Share #139 Posted April 2, 2013 I know this has been said, but while people used to sell Polish, French etc, tags as American POWs, there is a pretty good market in Europe making fake US ones now. You wouldn't think so, but there is and it has been going on for many years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KASTAUFFER Posted April 2, 2013 Author Share #140 Posted April 2, 2013 Can you post examples of what a known fake tag looks like? I have not seen any so far I thought might be fake. I know SS tags ETC have been faked. I know the dug POW tags are sold so cheap there hasn't been motivation to fake those. Kurt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KASTAUFFER Posted April 21, 2013 Author Share #141 Posted April 21, 2013 Here is a new addition. Its a POW tag rivetted to a leather wrist band. I have seen 3-4 of these leather bands and they all seem to have been used in Stalag IVB and VIIA. This one is documented by number to a 106th Division POW captured during the battle of the bulge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KASTAUFFER Posted April 21, 2013 Author Share #142 Posted April 21, 2013 See # 81 on this list . His POW number matches the POW tag and dogtag . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KASTAUFFER Posted April 28, 2013 Author Share #143 Posted April 28, 2013 I've had this one for a while. I just identified the recipient . 351st INF , 88th Division . Captured 10/24/44 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KASTAUFFER Posted May 15, 2013 Author Share #144 Posted May 15, 2013 Finding a Stalag Luft 6 tag has been my " great white buffalo" and I finally obtained one. I now have a tag from all the different camps that held US airmen. This tag belonged to a gunner from the 92nd BG shot down 3/6/44 during the famous Berlin mission. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEAST Posted May 15, 2013 Share #145 Posted May 15, 2013 Finding a Stalag Luft 6 tag has been my " great white buffalo" and I finally obtained one. I now have a tag from all the different camps that held US airmen. This tag belonged to a gunner from the 92nd BG shot down 3/6/44 during the famous Berlin mission. MVC-001L.JPG Nice addition Kurt! Do you have MACRs for all of them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KASTAUFFER Posted May 15, 2013 Author Share #146 Posted May 15, 2013 Thanks Erick! I do have all the MACR's. I take full advantage of my FOLD3 subscription Kurt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teufelhunde.ret Posted May 16, 2013 Share #147 Posted May 16, 2013 Good to see this thread back to the top! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kanemono Posted June 23, 2013 Share #148 Posted June 23, 2013 Here is a POW tag that is with a medal group to George Steffen Jr. who was in the 112th Regiment, 28th Division (thanks Kurt) and was was wounded and captured in the fierce fighting in the Hurtgen Forrest on November 7, 1944 where the 112th Regiment suffered horrendous casualties. The POW tag actually has two different numbers and camps stamped on it. Stalag VIH 19196 and Stalag VIG 13196. Dick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martygraw Posted December 15, 2013 Share #149 Posted December 15, 2013 Wow. Cool tags. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggrayham Posted December 28, 2013 Share #150 Posted December 28, 2013 This is a great thread, thanks for starting it. Here is another: 2nd Lt. Gordon Graham, 456th Bomb Group, 15th AF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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