U.S. ARMY LT. WILLIAM J. STYLES (right) and Capt. Richard Carey, 350th Bomb Squadron operations officer, and stand on the Danish fishing boat Bertha, with a man believed to be the fishing captain behind them. The ship rescued them after their plane, the Duration Plus Six, crashed in the North Sea due to heavy flak damage. They were captured shortly afterward. Lt. Styles was a prisoner of war until 1945.
The letter Ms. Berkery found among her father's possessions.