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Hurricane Debby washed up a message in a bottle dated to 1945
A real-life message in a bottle washed ashore near Tampa Bay, Florida, after Hurricane Debby. The enclosed letter seems to have been written by a sailor in the waning months of World War II.
Suzanne Flament-Smith found the bottle and talks to us about what it says and her efforts to return it to the author's family.
This segment aired on August 14, 2024.