ALBANY (AP) A World War II dog tag belonging to an American soldier has been found on a Pacific island where he earned a medal for bravery a year before being killed in the war's final battle.
A historian on Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands tells The Associated Press that she found Pfc. Thomas E. Davis' Army dog tag in a farm field in early 2014.
Genevieve Cabrera says arrangements are being made to have the tag delivered to his family in the U.S. Davis was from Putnam, in Rockland County and is buried in Roachdale, Indiana.
Davis served in the 27th Infantry Division, a New York National Guard unit. After the 1944 Battle of Saipan, he was awarded the Silver Star, one of the military's highest honors. Davis died in April 1945, on Okinawa.
