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Someone out hunting trilobite fossils at an old airbase on the Utah/Nevada border found something a little more interesting.
When he scraped away the cracked soil, he realized he had found a World War II dog tag stamped with a military serial number and the name "Charles D. Albury."
Rush, 44, a casino marketing worker from West Wendover, Nev., and a history buff, wondered whether the dog tag belonged to one of the 50,000 U.S. Army wartime fliers who had passed through during World War II on what was a sprawling training base at Wendover on the Utah side of the border.
"If it had been my dog tag, I would have wanted it back," said Rush, an Army veteran. "The name didn't mean anything to me until I searched on the Internet and came up with 4,000 hits -- along with the word 'Nagasaki.' "
Charles Don Albury was co-pilot of the B-29 dubbed Bock's Car that dropped the atomic bomb over Nagasaki, Japan, three days after the first atomic blast leveled Hiroshima. Albury also had flown Great Artiste, the B-29 that accompanied the Enola Gay on its mission to Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.
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