Erkennungsmarken opinions please.

[Dallas]

Anyone have any idea as to which units these belonged to? I am told they were found in the Stalingrad area.

[Eike41]

Dallas,

These are all reserve soldier tags except the upper left one. It appears to be Artillery Regiment 3 to my eyes. Someone here is usually able to give the divisions and such for a tag like that. The reserve tags are all from troopers who were called up to active units where they were probably killed or captured. they all look authentic to me.

Cheers!

[Eike41]

Dallas, Actually after a closer inspection I can make out a 9 also on that artillery tag if you had a better photo I could tell for sure but it looks like Artillery regiment 389 part of the 389th infantry division destroyed at Stalingrad. that would make sense.

[Dallas]

Thanks so much for the information!

[Cezar]

Hello,

Almost all the ID tags you presented are coming from the replacement units (excluding this artillery regiment). These replacement units were affiliated with respective field units and to these units they provided replacements. Having ID tag on hand only it's very hard or even impossible to estimate to which field unit owner of the respective ID tag belonged to.
See for instance the first example: 1./ INF. ERS. BTL. 107 = 1. (Kompanie)/ Infanterie-Ersatz-Bataillon 107 - 1st Company/ 107th Infantry Replacement Battalion.
If you take a look on the link from LdW you will see to what units this specific battalion was providing replacements.
http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/...rsBat107-R.htm
Now, by checking one by one you can try to find if some of these field units could have been in the area of Stalingrad.

[mr.dogtag]

clearly grave robbed tags ...

[Dallas]

Here's another.

[Cezar]

2. A. R. 389. = 2. (Batterie) Artillerie-Regiment 389 = 2nd Battery/ 389th Artillery Regiment
http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/...tReg/AR389.htm
it looks like this Regiment was destroyed in Stalingrad in January 1943.

[Dallas]

From what I've read on the 389th, they weren't around too long. Formed in January 1942. Destroyed within a year. The East Front meat grinder.