Seventy-eight years after an American soldier picked it from a dead German soldier in Germany, the 1942 New Hanover High School class ring of graduate Mary Silvia Allen returned to the school.
An Army officer brought it home. His California family discovered the ring in 2022, connected it to Wilmington, North Carolina, and sent it to officials.
School alumni board member Ben Ivey received the ring and contacted me, a World War II historian, for advice.