Eight years ago, Kevin Grenot was exploring a wooded section of his small town in northeastern France with a metal detector when he came across a metal bracelet buried beneath a foot of dirt.

He pocketed his find and began the trip back home. At one point he turned around to look back at the spot where he found the bracelet and, despite it not having rained that day, a vibrant rainbow appeared.

The bracelet was clearly special.

It was inscribed with the name "M.G. Phillips" and what appeared to be a service number, and though broken at the chain, it was in relatively good condition. Grenot reckoned the bracelet had been there for about 70 years, and, after some research, determined that it was an American army ID bracelet, likely from WWII.

On and off for the next two years, Grenot searched for someone who could help him locate a descendent of the mysterious M.

G. Phillips. He contacted the American embassy, the French embassy, various military groups, and hundreds of people on social media, but nobody could help him.

The bracelet sat in a jewelry box until this year, when Grenot experienced what he calls a "flash." He became determined to get the bracelet back to its family.

This time, however, luck was on his side. In January he made contact with professional genealogist Megan Heyl in Holland, Michigan.

"I said, I'll give it a shot," Heyl recalled to .

She worked day and night for nearly a week and was able to identify the owner of the bracelet as Marshall Glenn Phillips, who fought alongside the French against the Germans during WWII.

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