My grandfather Earl was in the US 28th Infantry Division and was wounded and captured near Wiltz, Luxembourg on 18 Dec 1944. He was sent to Stalag IV-B and remained there until the Sovs liberated them. He retained a few items from his stay there and showed them to me when I was young. He didn't want to talk too much about the camp. I remember "cold and hungry" as the theme. 35 years later my mom has me going through boxes and I find Earl's items. I took some pix and I thought I'd share them with various places on the internets. Here are his camp tag and dog tag Here's a cigarette box a Russian made for him Here are a couple stick pins. He said they found these in the streets. He figured the locals ditched their Nazi "flare" before the Russians got to town. Also in the box were some 9x19 Parabellum rounds, a 7.92x57 Mauser round, a Ruptured Duck pin, a new set of infantry/US brass, Marksman badge for rifle and machine gun, his Purple Heart and CIB, discharge orders, some French franc notes, a small notebook with family addresses, various ticket stubs from his way back home, and a well worn 1907 Mexican 50 centavos piece. I wish I'd heard the story behind that!
Hi Yobar - Welcome to the forum and thank you for sharing the pics of the things your Grandfather Earl acquired as a PoW. You have maybe seen the Pegasus Archives pictures already of/at Stalag IV B but if not this is the link: Stalag IVB Jules.
Hi Yobar - Welcome to the forum and thank you for sharing the pics of the things your Grandfather Earl acquired as a PoW. You have maybe seen the Pegasus Archives pictures already of/at Stalag IV B but if not this is the link: Stalag IVB Jules. Thanks, Jules. I did see the Pegasus pix while doing some net research. Never realized how large the place was.
Here are a couple of more items from Stalag IVB, heaven knows how Dad got the basket back ! the Coventry crest can be seen on Dads top his L/H side breast pocket . View attachment 96797 Clive
