Missing dog tags: The story of executed WW2 Lancaster bomber Freddie Habgood

The Telegraph published this video item, entitled “Missing dog tags: The story of executed WW2 Lancaster bomber Freddie Habgood” – below is their description.

This video was filmed in 2018.

The family of World War Two Lancaster bomber Sgt Freddie Habgood, have been reunited with his bracelet 74 years after it rose to the surface of a concentration camp ash pit in France.

Sergeant Frederic Harold Habgood died after his plane was shot down on the way to Stuttgart. Despite surviving the crash, Sgt Habgood was betrayed by a local woman to the Gestapo. On July 31 he was taken to the nearby Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp and immediately hanged. He was 21 years old.

For years his family believed the tags had most likely been looted by Nazi soldiers. Read the full story here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/12/25/family-world-war-two-lancaster-bomber-reunited-bracelet-74-years/

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