He lied about how old he was so he could join the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1943. Berk, then a 16-year-old just out of high school in Brookline, Massachusetts, he already had a pilot's license and wound up a bomber pilot in the China-Burma-India Theater. He carries another card that identifies him as a lifetime member of the Hump Pilots Association, the ''Hump'' being the Himalayas, over which Berk and other allied pilots flew supplies to forces battling the Japanese.