WWII Airmen Watch Found in UK

"A watch lost by an American serviceman during the Second World War is being returned to his family after lying in a field for more than 65 years.

Metal detector enthusiast Stephen Taylor discovered the 10-carat gold timepiece while searching the site of a former US Air Force base, in Cambridgeshire, earlier this month. All the 43-year-old had to go on was its maker – the Elgin National Watch Company, Illinois – and the name Oliver Jelks inscribed on the back.

Stephen, who lives in Ellistown, near Coalville, said: 'I was walking along the side of a wood by a farmer's field when my metal detector gave off a high-pitched tone.'"

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