Woman hunting for sea glass in Alaska finds Navy dog tag lost during WWII, sailor’s relatives thrill

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Woman hunting for sea glass in Alaska finds Navy dog tag lost during WWII, sailor’s relatives thrilled to get it back
Howard Altman
 

For Kristin Brown, the history mystery began last October. She was combing Jewel Beach looking for ocean-weathered bits of frosted glass on the Kodiak, Alaska, strand. But what she found was far more unusual.

“I was looking for sea glass for some craft projects and stumbled across this dog tag that was practically buried in the sand,” she said in an email to Military Times.

The dog tag belonged to a sailor named Willard Leslie Richerson, who served aboard a cannery tender converted into a Navy patrol boat called the YP-73.

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/05/19/woman-hunting-for-sea-glass-in-alaska-finds-wwii-navy-dog-tag-sailors-relatives-thrilled-to-get-it-back/?utm_source=clavis

[Smokin Joe]

Neat story.