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Dog tags

A pair of World War II U.S. military identification tags were discovered along prominent trails in Germany in July 2020. Through extensive research, the man who found the tags discovered that Army Pvt. Sammie Lee Williams enlisted on March 14, 1944, at the age of 22. He deployed from Fort Benning, Ga., to Germany during the war. Williams survived, returned to the U.S. and lived to be 81.

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