As metal detecting videos go this one is very pleasant to watch and as one of the other comment says, calming. Nice video Iron Mike. Cheers to Ryan for his help!
Hi Mike, I believe this dog tag is an American issued tag to a German POW. The tag doesn’t include the blood type of the soldier which would be very important for an American soldier rather than a POW. The name reads “Miesel, Hermann.” His name is Hermann Miesel. There are no American records for any men who served with this name, so this is most likely a German soldier issued an American styled tag as a POW.
Very nice video Mike! Amazing time-lapse footage, I wanna see more of that. It appears that your US dog tag displays information about a German POW. Typical German name it seems. Keep up the good work!
There were a large amount of German prisoners brought to America and housed in camps around the Durand, Illinois, Dakota, Illinois, Rockford, Illinois area. They were German POW's and brought to the areas because there were a vast number of German people in the area. They worked on the farms and made hemp rope.
Vickie Sutherland I stayed at a military base in Colorado for awhile because of NJROTC (forget the base name) But they had a German pow camp as apart of that base after WW2 and the prisoners helped farm crops like corn and potatoes. They actually had a few pictures of them hanging in the food court.
A great vid. I have not looked through all your videos so sorry if I missed this but have you ever dug at aircraft crash sites? I have here in England (before the law changed and you now need a licence for every dig) I had a few great finds.
I would think your best bet for finding the rightful owner of any US military property would be to contact the US State Department. It is possible even that the person who lost them died right where you found them. If that is the case, the body might still be there. If the person was listed as MIA it would be good to get him home, even after all this time.
Solo los veo su estan en castellano , español , o español americano ,descarto los que esten en otros idiomas sin subtitulos!!? i en español, gracias mil.!!!
Have you ever tought of doing trips for people that may never metal detected before like a tourist thing where they pay you for bringing them out to places where battles have taken place........i would pay and go thats for sure
Iron Mike Metaldetecting lol i wish i was...might be a little venture you could get into i'm sure there would be a lot of people interested in ww2 metal detecting
German dog tags were broken into two pieces when the soldier who carried them died. Both pieces had the same data, with one piece accompanying the corpse for later identification through its registration number and unit to which it belonged, and the other was sent to the family of the deceased.
Goed bezig Mike! Hoop dat je hem vindt. K heb zelf 2 tags gevonden en het geluk gehad ze allebei hier te vinden: aad.archives.gov/aad/fielded-search.jsp?dt=893 Hoop dat jouw tag er ook op staat. Succes met de zoektocht.
I do not believe that is an American I.D. tag. From what I'm seeing in the video it has none of the information an American soldiers I.D. tag would have. Couple that with the good German name on the tag I would think this tag was issued by the Americans to a German prisoner. I know that the Germans issued I.D. tags to Americans they held prisoner so it's not a large stretch of the imagination to think the Americans would do the same with the Germans they held.
Iron Mike Metaldetecting yep it's most definitely Hungarian, found several of them in Denmark at an old German German airfield, where they the German had ss trained Hungarian soldiers. Also I have seen the same thing with breaking their dogtags into four pieces.
Gude Mike Die Marke ist für einen deutschen POW, aber das weist du sicher schon. Die Funde sind ganz typisch für ein POW Camp. ich habe zwei Dutzend von diesen US Army Knöpfen ausgegraben :) Schau mal auf meinen Kanal ruclips.net/channel/UCwm-2pp-HmWnno_EGz68fWA Gruß AB45
Hi AB!, Danke fur deiner kommentar! Ja genau, ich habe von verschiedenen Leuten gehört das es sehr wahrscheinlich von einen Deutschen POW war. Ich habe wieder etwas gelernt :) Schöne Gruss, Mike
Noch ein kleiner Hinweis :) Einen Hinweis zu diesen dog tags lässt sich in dem Buch von Jean Höidal finden. Vorzugsweise werden diese aber nur in Frankreich gefunden. In Deutschland habe ich diese noch nicht gesehen. Auch haben wir uns gewundert, warum wir so viel US Army Knöpfe gefunden haben. Es liegt wohl daran das die US Army Wintermäntel ausgeben hat. Da es diese Knöpfe schon seit 1900 gibt, lässt es sich noch darüber spekulieren. Ob die US Army Uniform Überhänge aus dem WW1 an die POWs verteilt hat. Ich hoffe das war jetzt nicht zuviel Deutsch für dich :) Holländer ? Gruß AB
I wonder if a German prisoner had the dog tag from a killed American soldier. They may have dumped it after being imprisoned thinking they’d get in Trouble with it.
The information is lacking on your tag. On a US tag usually they have the name , blood type and even their religion. It would have a notch cut out on one end of it to as gruesome as it is sounds, would stick the notch cut out between the teeth of a dead soldier. To then ID him to his body. A horrible fact
Some pictures of the ID tag here:
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Iron Mike Metaldetecting What happened to the ancient coin?
Was bored at work and saw this video, were you ever able to get any information on the Dog Tag?
Always like your videos but would like to see more of your finds after you have cleaned them. Thanks.
Such a beautiful country. You are so blessed to have the opportunity to get so close to our history. Thank you for sharing all this.
Mike, thank you sir for your videos. They are calming and enjoyable. Stay safe brother.
As metal detecting videos go this one is very pleasant to watch and as one of the other comment says, calming. Nice video Iron Mike. Cheers to Ryan for his help!
Buttons are never boring to find! Especially the rare German one ofc :)! Really cool vid and finds. Have fun with the next one. Cheers
Great finds there, the scale of that camp was immense when it was operating.
Hi Mike, I believe this dog tag is an American issued tag to a German POW. The tag doesn’t include the blood type of the soldier which would be very important for an American soldier rather than a POW. The name reads “Miesel, Hermann.” His name is Hermann Miesel. There are no American records for any men who served with this name, so this is most likely a German soldier issued an American styled tag as a POW.
Very nice video Mike! Amazing time-lapse footage, I wanna see more of that. It appears that your US dog tag displays information about a German POW. Typical German name it seems. Keep up the good work!
Contact "Barry" from you tuber :" rat detecting".
He returned US dogtags before.
He can help you out.
Grtz!
Absolutely love the history to dig you! Ever I ever get the chance u would love to try this for a day
Great video. Thanks for sharing the finds with us.
Another great video bro. Really enjoy the finds and your style. Keep up the great work!
There were a large amount of German prisoners brought to America and housed in camps around the Durand, Illinois, Dakota, Illinois, Rockford, Illinois area. They were German POW's and brought to the areas because there were a vast number of German people in the area. They worked on the farms and made hemp rope.
Vickie Sutherland I stayed at a military base in Colorado for awhile because of NJROTC (forget the base name) But they had a German pow camp as apart of that base after WW2 and the prisoners helped farm crops like corn and potatoes. They actually had a few pictures of them hanging in the food court.
my town jackson, alabama had little houses for german POWs that would work with logging companies.
What an amazing permission. Lucky Patrick is a sharer!
Love this video. With limited time I would have just took the finds home and went over more ground than showing the very good finds at home
I don't know, the U.S. dog tag I have is Vietnam era. The one you found is shaped the same, but that's it. The one I have is my dad's. Semper fi.
Nice video and great hunting location and that acient thing looks like a horse halter decorativ piece
Yeah! Good call! Thanks for solving this little mystery
The dog tag is a POW identification tag given to a German POW
Hi, you found a Royal Hungarian Army button with a Hungarian Royal Crown on it, at 7.47 Congratulation! Greetings from Hungary
I enjoyed watching your video...nice finds!
Nice finds Mike ! Keep going!! I send you greetings in my video from Wednesday. 😉🖒
Super vondsten Mike! Top locatie!
Good video enjoyed seeing the finds
You really find amazing things in the ground
7:55 Button from hungarian uniform.
alot of finds! very nice field
Great Video! Keep them coming Mike. 😊
Excellent videos.
Love your videos Mike.....wish I had the opportunity to do this
A great vid. I have not looked through all your videos so sorry if I missed this but have you ever dug at aircraft crash sites? I have here in England (before the law changed and you now need a licence for every dig) I had a few great finds.
I stopped and looked because I thought it was chocolate. Still a cool find either way.
The round thing looks like a horse bridle rosette
Love your videos 😁. I'm very into history and ww2 things
Looks like Ciesel Lebmann on tag
Very interesting video Mike :) keep up the good work :)
Do you keep these items or sell it to a museum? I love what you do
take it to the us embessy with the id numbers.
Great video and nice finds!
Geeez, you're fast!! :)
well, I was half done watching the video so why not throw a comment! :)
Wow what a great video. Would love an update if you are able to find the owner of the dog tag from the US Soldier.
and greatly appreciated.
I would think your best bet for finding the rightful owner of any US military property would be to contact the US State Department.
It is possible even that the person who lost them died right where you found them. If that is the case, the body might still be there. If the person was listed as MIA it would be good to get him home, even after all this time.
Any update with the ancient find?
Where was this camp? Never heard of such a large us pow camp in france.
Great video!
Great video
Goeie vid! Geweldige locatie lijkt me. Wel bloody koud he!
Ja was zeer koud. Stevige wind en net iets boven vriespunt. Maar zonnetje scheen, dat scheelde wel.
Dank voor het kijken!
Great video mike!!
Хорошее видео!
Solo los veo su estan en castellano , español , o español americano ,descarto los que esten en otros idiomas sin subtitulos!!? i en español, gracias mil.!!!
Have you ever tought of doing trips for people that may never metal detected before like a tourist thing where they pay you for bringing them out to places where battles have taken place........i would pay and go thats for sure
hmm, not really. But if you're a multimillionaire and the price is right.. ;-)
Iron Mike Metaldetecting lol i wish i was...might be a little venture you could get into i'm sure there would be a lot of people interested in ww2 metal detecting
Hermann Miesel sure sounds like a German name to me
Have you found an owner for the dogtag yet?
Keep it up
I've found a couple of German dogtags in my area all of them is broken in to 4 pieces, don't know why they did that
German dog tags were broken into two pieces when the soldier who carried them died. Both pieces had the same data, with one piece accompanying the corpse for later identification through its registration number and unit to which it belonged, and the other was sent to the family of the deceased.
Goed bezig Mike! Hoop dat je hem vindt. K heb zelf 2 tags gevonden en het geluk gehad ze allebei hier te vinden: aad.archives.gov/aad/fielded-search.jsp?dt=893 Hoop dat jouw tag er ook op staat. Succes met de zoektocht.
Why were there still prisoners held in 1948? The war (for the Germans) ended in April, 1945. Should not the POW's have been sent home?
Fine 👍
that is a dog tag what is left of it
I would say it is not a US dog tag.
At the 11 minute that was a US dog tag.
nice man
Goede video ik weet wel dat je nederlands bend👍👌
Can't make out the us dog tag. Can't help
I do not believe that is an American I.D. tag. From what I'm seeing in the video it has none of the information an American soldiers I.D. tag would have. Couple that with the good German name on the tag I would think this tag was issued by the Americans to a German prisoner. I know that the Germans issued I.D. tags to Americans they held prisoner so it's not a large stretch of the imagination to think the Americans would do the same with the Germans they held.
I just found Hermann Meisel's memorial on the FindAGrave app. Not sure.
www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=109396726
It's a us dog tag but I'd tag is the same thing
And one of the buttons you found is Hungarian.
+BlaZo Benz, Do you meen the button with the crown, at 08:15?
Iron Mike Metaldetecting yep it's most definitely Hungarian, found several of them in Denmark at an old German German airfield, where they the German had ss trained Hungarian soldiers. Also I have seen the same thing with breaking their dogtags into four pieces.
It’s a us dogtag
Gude Mike
Die Marke ist für einen deutschen POW, aber das weist du sicher schon.
Die Funde sind ganz typisch für ein POW Camp. ich habe zwei Dutzend von diesen US Army Knöpfen ausgegraben :) Schau mal auf meinen Kanal ruclips.net/channel/UCwm-2pp-HmWnno_EGz68fWA
Gruß AB45
Hi AB!,
Danke fur deiner kommentar!
Ja genau, ich habe von verschiedenen Leuten gehört das es sehr wahrscheinlich von einen Deutschen POW war. Ich habe wieder etwas gelernt :)
Schöne Gruss, Mike
Noch ein kleiner Hinweis :)
Einen Hinweis zu diesen dog tags lässt sich in dem Buch von Jean Höidal finden. Vorzugsweise werden diese aber nur in Frankreich gefunden. In Deutschland habe ich diese noch nicht gesehen.
Auch haben wir uns gewundert, warum wir so viel US Army Knöpfe gefunden haben. Es liegt wohl daran das die US Army Wintermäntel ausgeben hat. Da es diese Knöpfe schon seit 1900 gibt, lässt es sich noch darüber spekulieren. Ob die US Army Uniform Überhänge aus dem WW1 an die POWs verteilt hat.
Ich hoffe das war jetzt nicht zuviel Deutsch für dich :) Holländer ?
Gruß AB
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I wonder if a German prisoner had the dog tag from a killed American soldier. They may have dumped it after being imprisoned thinking they’d get in Trouble with it.
us dog tag
The information is lacking on your tag. On a US tag usually they have the name , blood type and even their religion. It would have a notch cut out on one end of it to as gruesome as it is sounds, would stick the notch cut out between the teeth of a dead soldier. To then ID him to his body. A horrible fact
Sandy, that's an urban legend. The notch is for nailing the tag to a temporary marker by Graves Registration units.
Something about this video feels so superfecial and forced. What happened, Mike?
What on earth. A bit rude you are I think.
What made you feel it was forced?
Felt a bit ill, especially the day after (last part of the vid), perhaps you've noticed :)