Two metal detector enthusiasts in Italy discovered a missing identity tag belonging to a World War II-era American soldier on a beach near Rome. The unexpected discovery was made at Santa Severa, a beach located about an hour north of Rome, by local residents Alessandro Marinelli and Daniel Ciofu.

The pair had been walking along the beach and began to dig after their machine signalled the presence of metal buried in the sand. A few minutes later they were shocked to find a dog tag, belonging to American soldier Norbert Knight, and immediately set about trying to track down his family.