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    Okay Skysters, here is a real world application for your vast knowlege on WWII. My daughter is a curator at a museum and this was just donated, any idea of what it is? Measures 4cm x 6cm and is made of iron/steel



    Text reads: 4471 Luft Stalag 1

    Ideas?

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    Well I'm guessing, but possibly the ID tag for prisoner 4478 at Stalag Luft 1 (Prisoner of War Camp; Air[service])

    Lest we forget

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    Dave, it's a dogtag issued to airmen POW during WW2. They weren't all the same shape. Google Stalug Luft dogtag and have a look at the images.

    Following German army procedure, if the owner died it could be split along the perforation, one half being kept on the body, the other half being turned in to the regimental (or whatever) HQ.

    Stalug Luft 1 was in Barth, Western Pomerania.
    Last edited by Guntruck; 02-27-2017 at 12:01.
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    A bit of internet research later...
    go to http://www.merkki.com/photo.htm

    I have copied the picture of the US airman having his hair cut,
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    Good spot John.
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    Very well done! My daughter is the curator of collections at the Basque Historical Museum, they get some very interesting items! I am working on a display for the bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War . . . thanks for the quick and excellent work!

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    Those were my first thoughts as to what it was. I have seen German Dogtags and since this is Stalag Luft (POW CAMP)I thought that is what it was for.
    Last edited by BobP; 02-28-2017 at 14:09.

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    yes, goering had to control all that moved through the air to such an extent that even pow aircrew fell under his purview.

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    Since talking about this the best movies about this are The Great Escape and Stalag 17. There is one about the Germans The McKenzie Break

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    The Wooden Horse

    The Colditz Story
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    The One That Got Away is my favourite.

    "He is wise who watches"



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