Detmold dog tag

[Ww2collector]

Hello friends.I recently received this dog tag but I have very little information if someone could please help me.I know Detmold was a luftwaffe Base during the war but need help with the other markings.
The tag reads as follows

888
LAGER FL.HORST
DETMOLD.

I will try to attach pictures

[mikeshilton]

Hi, I found this info on Luftwaffe Airfields 1935-45 Germany (1937 Borders) by Henry L. deZeng IV:-

Detmold (GER) (51 56 40 N – 08 54 15 E) General: airfield (Fliegerhorst) 26 km NNE of Paderborn in North Rhine – Westphalia and 25.6 km ESE of Bielefeld; airfield located 1.6 km NE of Detmold. History: constructed 1934-35 and began operating at the beginning of 1936. Officially established as a Lw. Fliegerhorstkommandantur by 1 October 1936. Served as a recruit depot and flight training facility through 1941, then as a technical training school and replacement depot from 1943 and a an air signals school from 1944. Detmold’s extensive billeting capacity was a determining factor in its use. Dimensions: approx. 1100 x 640 meters (1,200 x 700 yards). Runway: grass surface. Infrastructure: full services were available including a compass swing and machine gun registration range. Had 4 large hangars fronted with paved hangar aprons offering multiple refueling points and interconnected with taxiways, separate workshop buildings around the hangars, a motor pool to the NW of the hangars, a flight control building (Flugleitung), admin and supply buildings, and a huge complex of barrack blocks all on the NW side of the field behind the hangars. The nearest rail connection was 1.6 km SW of the airfield. Dispersal: in Dec 44 the eastern dispersal area had 5 large open aircraft shelters and the northern area had 2 large and 2 small, these also being open. Defenses: unknown. Remarks:
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Luftwaffe Airfields 1935-45
14 Jan 45: low-level attack by RAF Tempests – claimed 2 x Ju 52s destroyed and 2 x Fw 190s damaged. 4 Apr 45: Detmold was taken by U.S. forces. Operational Units: III./JG 3 (Mar-Apr 40); II./JG 27 (Nov 40 – Jan 41). School Units: elementary flight school Detmold (Jan 36 – Mar 39); Fl.Ausbildungs-Rgt. 72 (1939-40); Schule/FAR 72 (Apr – Oct 39); Fliegertechnische Schule 7 (c. 1943-45); Arbeitsplatz for FFS A/B 119 (Kassel-Rothwesten) (1941-43); Luftflottennachrichtenschule 8 “Prinz Eugen” (May 44 – Apr 45). Reserve Training & Replacement Units: Flieger-Ers.Abt. 24 (Oct 36 – Mar 37); Flieger-Ers.Abt. 14 (Oct 37 – Sep 38); Flieger-Ers.Btl. V (1943 – Aug 44). Station Commands: Flugplatzkdo. Detmold of Fl.H.Kdtr. E(v) 213/XI Lippspringe (c.Oct 44 – c.Apr 45). Kommandant (mainly prior to the establishment of numbered station commands – not complete): Oberst Alfred Sturm (1 Jan 36 - 31 Mar 40). Station Units (on various dates – not complete): 8./le.Flak-Abt. 941 (Sep 44 – Mar 45); 5./le.Flak-Abt. 986 (Nov 44)?; 6.Kp. and 10.Kp./Kw.Trsp.Rgt. 2 (Speer) d.Lw. (1945); Flieger-Ers.Btl. V (c.Jan 43 – Aug 44). [Sources: AFHRA A5257A pp.116-18 (5 Dec 44); chronologies; BAMA; NARA; PRO/NA; web site ww2.dk]

I believe it was also a repair centre for damaged Fw190's and Me109's, also the Fw Ta 154 was built in the town, because of all the carpenters working there. I was stationed there from 1981 to 1983. I went back in 2014, sadly a lot of the base has been demolished, including the barrack block I lived in.

[mikeshilton]

I have an Erkennungsmarke for a member of one of the FL.Ausbildungs-Rgts that were based there, I found it on the airfield in 1983 while metal detecting.

[Sheldrake]

I was stationed there from 1981 to 1983. I went back in 2014, sadly a lot of the base has been demolished, including the barrack block I lived in.

ahh Wetmold, in the shadow of Hermann the German AAC, 200 sqn or LG?

[Ww2collector]

Thank you very much for all the information I greatly appreciate it.Fascinating read.Does 888 stand for a unit.? And also is LAGER someone's name.?

[Sheldrake]

Thank you very much for all the information I greatly appreciate it.Fascinating read.Does 888 stand for a unit.? And also is LAGER someone's name.?

i am not an expert on German dog tags but i would read "Lager Fl. Horst" as short for Lager Fliegerhorst i.e. "Airfield camp Detmold"

888 might be a regimental number or a feldpost number or just a reference numebr.

Are you sure you have a dog tag and not something like an armoury or stores token associated with the camp rather than an individual?

[mikeshilton]

654 Sqn AAC