Jock Auld Posted January 10, 2015 Posted January 10, 2015 (edited) Guys, This was todays best find? Notice no blood group? Edited January 10, 2015 by Jock Auld
Tony Posted January 10, 2015 Posted January 10, 2015 Jock, I like the things you find, it reminds me of the old days when good stuff could be found at boot sales and junk shops. There's one thing I don't understand and have heard it twice in a week or so, it's the blood group on a tag, was it normal to have the blood group stamped? I only have one WWII ID tag which was given to me by the soldier who wore, it shows no blood group either. Tony
Jock Auld Posted January 10, 2015 Author Posted January 10, 2015 Tony, for the most part the blood group was there, sometimes it is not for what reason I don't know. Perhaps his blood group was not known at the time of the disc production? I have heard said as well that SS discs don't have it since the members were tattooed with their blood group? Not much help if that arm was blown off though? You do see blood groups on SS discs as well. It is not the end of the world if it is not there, just a bit unusual.
Odulf Posted January 12, 2015 Posted January 12, 2015 What makes you think that this is an aircrew disk? I can only see a number and no further details, such as a name and unit. To my opinion this is the disc of a POW in a German POW camp.
Jock Auld Posted January 12, 2015 Author Posted January 12, 2015 (edited) I was under the impression that numbers only is Luftwaffe air crew, coded as such that when shot down the unit is not revealed, so one of the numbers is unit the other the stammroll number? PW tags tend to have the Oflag, Stalag, etc, unit abreviation and they tend to be rectangular tags. Your observation that you can only see numbers qualfies its usefulness to aircrew? No unit. Edited January 12, 2015 by Jock Auld
Chris Boonzaier Posted January 12, 2015 Posted January 12, 2015 My understanding is these are flight crews and paratroopers? Am no expert on dog tags though. All the POW I have seen have been rectangular...
Jock Auld Posted January 12, 2015 Author Posted January 12, 2015 Chris, Yes FJ as well apparently the unit is a 5 or 6 digit number and the smaller number the roster number. I have just lifted all my images from a thread on WRF entitled 'some random tags'. Should I post them on here or is it duplication of data so to speak?
Jock Auld Posted January 31, 2015 Author Posted January 31, 2015 Moszi, Thank you for the detail, which book lists these numbers and units? Cheers
moszi Posted February 1, 2015 Posted February 1, 2015 JockUnfortunately i dont have the book only a list of numbers and units.CheersMoszi
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