Sealed within a plastic bag, a photograph of George Bellinger floated away from a rented motor boat and disappeared into the Pacific Ocean.
Just like he did.
Sixty-a few decades before his eldest son and a grandson he never satisfied closed a chapter in relatives heritage by going to Jaluit Atoll on a propeller aircraft in 2005, Navy Lt. George Bellinger was last viewed over those waters as the chief of a bombing segment all through the raid on the Marshall Islands in Planet War II.
Bellinger flew a single of 28 planes that took off from the deck of the USS Yorktown and soared into the stormy early-early morning darkness on Feb. 1, 1942, as part of America’s initially major offensive after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The 31-yr-aged pilot in no way returned to the ship, nor to his loved ones in Glens Falls, N.Y., but he still left guiding a lineage that now stretches into the NFL.
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