ANCHORAGE, Alaska (September 20, 2009)--Helen Glenn Foreman is about to receive a memento of her brother, some 65 years after he died when his plane was shot down during World War II.

A German who retrieved the U.S. airman's body is sending back the bracelet her brother Jack Glenn was wearing when his plane went down in a village southwest of Berlin.

Heinz Kruse, who was given the silver trinket, was 16 when the B-24 bomber crashed.

He's 81 now and still living in the same rural village, which later became part of East Germany.

Kruse turned the bracelet over to Bernerd Harding, a New Hampshire veteran who'd traveled this month to Germany on a quest to find his pilot's wings, a quest that proved unsuccessful.

The fallen airman's sister lives in Alaska and expects to receive the bracelet in a week or so, but she won't be keeping it long.

Foreman says she'll be sending it to a museum.