WW2 Luftwaffe Stalag 6 Confirmed RAF POW Identity Disc

Original zinc unbroken German issued POW identity disc still with string loop attached.

The POW serial number “503” is confirmed as F/Sgt H G Brown 1804454 Royal Air Force.

Stalag Luft VI Heydekrug. First, the camp was used to hold Polish prisoners of war. Since 1940, captive Belgians and French would be interned there as well. In 1943, British and Canadian air force non-commissioned officers were held prisoners at the camp. Later on, a shipment of American, Australian, and even New Zealand POWs was brought to the camp. Soviet soldiers were also imprisoned in the camp.

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