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 seemed 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 article was originally published on WBUR.org.