Bill Santora, a World War II memorabilia collector from Toms River, made it possible for the National D-Day Museum to present the dog tag of an American soldier killed on Omaha Beach to his family today in Tennessee, the Associated Press reports. Exactly 63 years after that tragic day, the remarkably well-preserved tag was returned to the relatives of Pvt. William Bernice Clark. "I always wondered who it was," said Santora, who handed the dog tag over to the Bedford, Va., museum. "I feel more connected to the soldier, a little connected to family and I think they are going to be happy to have this memento back."
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