dirtlooter
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- Jun 5, 2014
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- Relic Hunting
Several months ago, on our new permission, My wife and I found the dog tags of two service men as well as numerous other items. We found two collar disks, one Combat Engineers and one Artillery. We also found fired 50 cal brass, 30-06 brass and loaded 30 carbine rounds. I also found a silver RIFLE marksmanship badge. The set of two tags belonged to Percy Scharch of Tilghman Maryland and we were able to locate family and return his tags to them. We had been unable to locate the relatives of the lone dog tag that belonged to a Orval Bailey of Idaho Falls Idaho. Then a few days ago, a visiting daughter who was checking out our pile of finds from this last year, noticed the dog tag and got really excited when we told her about the other set being returned. She said that she was certain that she could find his family, using a different approach than we had tried. Sure enough, she managed to find out quite a bit about Mr. Bailey and his family. So then it was a matter of trying to contact a descendant. I don't do the facebook thing but my wife finally got a response from Percy's fourth daughter, a Kay Tinkle this morning. So, some time this week, the tag will be sent to the family. As a DAV myself, this is a very awesome experience. Percy belonged to the 313th Combat Engineers Division and so I would guess that Orval did as well since the tags were found within 50 yards of each other. These items were found less that a quarter of a mile from the railroad and I believe that the men were either in route to training in either Texas or Louisiana or in process of returning from training. These tags represent but a tiny moment of these two men as they both served in the great war of WWII. I was glad to see that both men managed to survive the war and live to be old. These tags for me have been about the coolest finds because of being able to return them to family. Pretty exciting stuff. DL
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