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DANIA BEACH, Fla. (NewsNation) — The almighty waves from Hurricane Debby person uncovered a caller enigma dating backmost to World War II.
A Florida pistillate is present searching for the writer oregon intended recipient of a connection successful a vessel dated March 4, 1945, which she discovered portion cleaning up debris from the hurricane precisely 1 week ago.
Letter recovered successful debris 730 miles away
Suzanne Flament-Smith believes she knows who the connection was meant for astir 8 decades ago.
The letter, addressed to idiosyncratic named Lee from idiosyncratic named Chris, was written successful cursive and is hard to read, showing wide signs of deterioration from its agelong travel done the decades.
"It says 'received your missive yesterday; was gladsome to perceive from you. So, you got a small lit up the different day, good that is everything astir here. They person a barroom and truly bully beer,'" Flament-Smith read.
Suzanne Flament-Smith recovered a connection successful a vessel portion gathering debris from Hurricane Debby. (Suzanne Flament-Smith)She added: "It sounds similar 2 friends conscionable exchanging what their regular lives were like."
The letterhead is from a Navy grooming basal successful Virginia Beach, astir 730 miles from wherever it was recovered successful the Tampa area.
This suggests that implicit the past 70 years, the connection successful a vessel traveled astir the Carolinas, southbound nether the Florida Peninsula, into the Gulf of Mexico, and past weaved into the Tampa Bay area.
Suzanne Flament-Smith recovered a connection successful a vessel portion cleaning debris from Hurricane Debby. (Suzanne Flament-Smith)A imaginable lucifer found
Flament-Smith posted a representation of the missive connected societal media, and her inbox was flooded with radical wanting to assistance way down the families involved.
With assistance from the Navy and net investigators, she believes she whitethorn person recovered a match.
A pistillate successful Texas thinks her gramps wrote the letter. The Navy is validating records to spot if the timelines lucifer up and to corroborate whether the woman's gramps was stationed astatine the naval basal successful Virginia Beach.
Flament-Smith is besides moving connected getting a penning illustration from the pistillate successful Texas to comparison with the letter.
