MISSING DOG TAGS FOUND

People living close to the old WWII American bomber base near Papua, New Guinea recently found Brainerd WWII vet Alva Clark's dog tags, buried in the jungle along with almost a hundred other GI ID tags. Retired Northwest Airlines pilot Brian Moon spends his days searching for missing in action American soldiers and received a confederate's call about the dog tags along with tales of US plane crash sites and executed Japanese war prisoners. Clark's tags had a Brainerd address on them and Moon wondered if the soldier had gone to war and not returned but Alva's son Kent said Dad had come home after the war and continued on with his life. Alva Clark died in 1974. His wife Doris, whose name was also on the GI dog tag, died six years later. Moon said he's going to travel to New Guinea next June, to examine other remains and supposed evidence of missing American GIs and said he'll make sure Clark's dog tags are brought back to his son. Son Kent said his father was stationed at the base near Papua during the war attached to a transportation division. But Kent Clark said he has no idea why his dad's dog tags are still there. Clark said "Dad didn't like to talk about the war." Moon expects to get more answers, and the dog tags next June.