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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nCultural historian Genevieve Cabrera found a soldier’s dog tag in a field where more than 70 years ago, American soldiers fought against the the 43rd Division of the Imperial Japanese Army on the island of Saipan. One of the American infantry divisions doing battle there was the New York National guard’s 27th Division. One of the soldiers in that division was Private First Class Thomas E. Davis. Somehow or another, he lost his dog tag in that farmer’s field where it laid until Ms. Cabrera found it sticking up out of the freshly tilled soil. 13,000 Americans were killed or injured in the 3 weeks and 3 days of that battle. 24,000 Japanese were killed, another 5,000 committed suicide and about a thousand civilians committed suicide plunging to their deaths on “Suicide Cliff” and “Banzai Cliff” because the emperor of Japan offered them special dispensation for a hero’s welcome into the afterlife in exchange for their deaths. PFC Davis wasn’t one of those casualties on Saipan, though. He earned a Silver Star, according to his family, for saving a fellow soldier’s life.<\/p>\n
Davis died about ten months later on Okinawa, along with the other 12,000 Americans who were KIA, but his dog tag remained on Saipan until now when it’s being returned to Davis’ family, according to the Associated Press<\/a>, the dog tag will go to PFC Davis’ namesake nephew in Victoria, Indiana<\/del> Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"