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- Birth nameHoward Francis Berk
- Howard Berk was born on July 22, 1924 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Columbo (1971), Mission impossible (1966) and Target (1985). He died on March 27, 2016 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- 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.
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