KASTAUFFER Posted April 12, 2019 Author Share #226 Posted April 12, 2019 My newest tag that I was able to ID, Stalag XIIA tag to 2nd Lt. Roland Bach of the 109th Infantry , 28th Division. He was captured 12/17/1944 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ardennen1944 Posted August 22, 2019 Share #227 Posted August 22, 2019 Who can help me please finding the link to the roster on Ancestry in regard of the "movement order, listing POWs leaving France for the USA in June 1945 and listed both their US Service numbers and their POW ID numbers!"....Probably I am seeking for the wrong document at Ancestry. I have a couple of POW tags that I would like to check there. Thanks from Holland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ardennen1944 Posted August 22, 2019 Share #228 Posted August 22, 2019 Who can please help me with these tags? Must have some more ....somewhere.... Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KASTAUFFER Posted August 22, 2019 Author Share #229 Posted August 22, 2019 In ancestry there are certain ships that brought POWs home in 1945. The key to finding the movement orders is finding the ship, then looking through the movement orders. The Admiral Benson is a ship I would focus on. All New York, Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820-1957 https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/nypl/?name=_smith&name_x=_1&viewMode=category&qh=%2FYkbN%2BRXLSzntDa%2BkeOQow%3D%3D I would guess however those tags are probably not from Americans based on the number range of the XIIA tags and very few Americans were in IVD. Did you buy these in Europe? Kurt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ardennen1944 Posted August 23, 2019 Share #230 Posted August 23, 2019 Thanks Kurt. I bought the tags at local flee markets in the Ardennes, about 30 years ago. Fingers crossed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Will_ Posted August 27, 2019 Share #231 Posted August 27, 2019 Hi, Fantastic pieces, thanks to all of you for sharing! Here is a little part of a grouping which belonged to a 15th AF Air Gunner shot down in may 1944 : Will Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KASTAUFFER Posted August 27, 2019 Author Share #232 Posted August 27, 2019 Hi Will Nice example of a Stalag Luft 4 dogtag! Kurt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEAST Posted August 30, 2019 Share #233 Posted August 30, 2019 So many nice examples! This is an excellent thread and well worth returning to reread! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KASTAUFFER Posted September 8, 2019 Author Share #234 Posted September 8, 2019 Tag just acquired at the ASMIC show: Stalag 12A from a POW serving with the 28th Cavalry reconnaissance Squadron captured 12/12/44. Tag number matches the POW manifest . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KASTAUFFER Posted October 21, 2019 Author Share #235 Posted October 21, 2019 Here is a nice lot that just closed on Ebay. I did not buy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffs1130 Posted January 15, 2020 Share #236 Posted January 15, 2020 Recent eBay find! STALAG 4B Tag Based on the number it was issued during the Battle of the Bulge. No luck yet tracking down the number online, however, I did find a POW number (same camp) off by 1 digit! It was issued to a Soldier in the 44th Engineer Combat Battalion, captured 19 DEC 44. So maybe this was a fellow Combat Engineer! Looking forward to getting out to DC sometime and researching it out more! Hopefully I can put a name to the tag! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KASTAUFFER Posted January 15, 2020 Author Share #237 Posted January 15, 2020 Recent eBay find! STALAG 4B Tag Based on the number it was issued during the Battle of the Bulge. No luck yet tracking down the number online, however, I did find a POW number (same camp) off by 1 digit! It was issued to a Soldier in the 44th Engineer Combat Battalion, captured 19 DEC 44. So maybe this was a fellow Combat Engineer! Looking forward to getting out to DC sometime and researching it out more! Hopefully I can put a name to the tag! IMG_4216.JPG There is a set of records from the US Army Provost Marshalls Office at College Park that lists all US POWs with information about each including the POW ID #. Ive seen scans from it. The problem is its a hard copy that has 100,000 plus entries in it. Hard to find a match! Kurt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffs1130 Posted January 15, 2020 Share #238 Posted January 15, 2020 Last time I went to DC, I was able to review original captured German Rosters from various POW Camps... They list POW# by Camp and have all the info on the captured soldier... So I might have some luck finding more on this tag! Here are some scans from STALAG 13C - POW Numbers 20282 - 20293 were listed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KASTAUFFER Posted January 16, 2020 Author Share #239 Posted January 16, 2020 Last time I went to DC, I was able to review original captured German Rosters from various POW Camps... They list POW# by Camp and have all the info on the captured soldier... So I might have some luck finding more on this tag! Here are some scans from STALAG 13C - POW Numbers 20282 - 20293 were listed. IMG_4217.JPGIMG_4218.JPG IMG_4219.JPGIMG_4220.JPG WOW! Ive never seen these! I have LOTS of tags I know belonged to US POWs that I need to research . Kurt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffs1130 Posted January 16, 2020 Share #240 Posted January 16, 2020 Being Captured German Documents, they’re not 100% complete nor all there… So 50/50 chance? But I do remember quite a few being there, so it's worth a shot! They’re on old stinky German paper that's falling apart and some are on microfilm… They are under the Provost Marshall group, but I don't remember the subgroup... They’re listed by German POW Camp, then in order by POW Number. All in German... If I get back out there in the next few months I’ll let you know, maybe I can help ID some of your tags! Always great helping to restore that piece of history, putting a name to the number! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martygraw Posted January 19, 2020 Share #241 Posted January 19, 2020 Pvt. Raymond E. Ayers, Stalag Vii-A More photos posted here . . . http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/337523-wwii-pvt-raymond-e-ayers-pow-stalag-vii-a/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KASTAUFFER Posted April 29, 2020 Author Share #242 Posted April 29, 2020 I have seen enough examples of this style of Stalag Luft 6 dogtag to be convinced they are correct. I have seen 5 so far, and I own 2. Here is one to a 381st BG EM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USCapturephotos Posted June 1, 2020 Share #243 Posted June 1, 2020 Hi Kurt and others. I think I've been late to the party with this thread but have really enjoyed looking and learning. I don't think I posted this on the forum before, but 22 years ago, I visited the site of Stalag IV B or at least the birch forest where the camp once was. I was able to kick around in the underbrush and uncovered some pieces of thick broken glass and other detritus. In about 2005 I met a 78th Inf. division vet who had been interned there for a time. I wrote to him later and mailed him the pieces of the camp that I had found. He was really happy with that. Anyway, thanks all for this great thread! Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S1991 Posted September 4, 2020 Share #244 Posted September 4, 2020 On 2/21/2014 at 5:22 AM, KASTAUFFER said: Here is a Stalag XIIA tag from a POW who served with the 104th Infantry, 26th Division captured 11/13/44 Kurt, I bought this dogtag from you several years ago. Any chance you still have any research on this man? Or possible to assist me? Thanks! Silvano Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KASTAUFFER Posted September 6, 2020 Author Share #245 Posted September 6, 2020 On 9/4/2020 at 4:17 PM, S1991 said: Kurt, I bought this dogtag from you several years ago. Any chance you still have any research on this man? Or possible to assist me? Thanks! Silvano Hi Silvano I would’ve given you everything I had at the time. Kurt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KASTAUFFER Posted September 6, 2020 Author Share #246 Posted September 6, 2020 Stalag Luft 1 dogtag from a co-pilot with the 381st BG , 8th AAF. Part of a much larger grouping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KASTAUFFER Posted February 25, 2021 Author Share #247 Posted February 25, 2021 Stalag Luft 4 dogtag to a 97th BG Gunner who was show down 9/14/44 over Blechhammer Germany. later in life he became a prolific author of World War II aviation books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KASTAUFFER Posted March 4, 2021 Author Share #248 Posted March 4, 2021 Group to a 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division Private captured July 10, 1943 in Sicily. He survived the war as a POW in Stalag IIB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KASTAUFFER Posted March 17, 2021 Author Share #249 Posted March 17, 2021 Stalag Luft III dog tag to a 306th Bomb Group , 8th AAF pilot captured 6/22/43 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Lerenfort Posted March 17, 2021 Share #250 Posted March 17, 2021 Another very interesting group Kastauffer, thank you for posting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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