Sixty nine years after D day in Normandy, a Frenchwoman found a dog tag from an American soldier in the sands of the beach there. 

Last September, Stéphane Lamache, director of the Airborne Museum of Sainte-Mère-Eglise, in Normandy, in northern France, was taking a walk on the dunes of Agon-Coutainville with friends. It was a cloudless day. A small piece of metal was sticking out from the surface of the sand.

The historian immediately recognized that it was a dog tag, the metal identification worn around the neck by American soldiers on D-day.

Incredibly, the soldier, James Kelson, was still alive, and the tag was returned to him.