A retired police inspector’s newly acquired metal detecting hobby helped him find dog tags and other items belonging to a Texas World War II veteran who was wounded on an Italian battlefield.

Last week’s column on Scott Everhart Brewer is a good example. Brewer was a Boisean who died in Germany while serving as a gunner on a B-24 during World War II. Last month, a German named Tomas Hauschild was working with a metal detector

Brewer was a gunner on a B-24 who died in Germany in 1943. A man recently recovered his dog tags. BY Tim Woodward - twoodward@idahostatesman.com Edition Date: 01/30/08 Sixty-four years ago, an American bomber carrying a crew of eight and a New York Times reporter was shot down in Germany. Two weeks ago, a German with a [...]