WALB-TV, Albany. South Georgia�s #1 News Source: Hurricane Hunter's widow looks back

WALB-TV, Albany. South Georgias #1 News Source: Hurricane Hunter's widow looks back
: "September 27, 2005
Coolidge, Georgia--

While so many people run away from hurricanes like Katrina and Rita, some actually run into them. That was the case of a Navy Hurricane hunter from South Georgia who was killed 50 years ago this week on a mission.
'He joined the Hurricane Hunters, which I begged him not to do, but he was that type of man. He said he could do some good for other people, and that's what he died doing. says Betty Stocker.

Despite the passing decades, Stocker will never forget her late husband, Navy Lieutenant George Herlong. 'He volunteered for this mission for a man whose wife was having a baby, and they flew into San Juan, Puerto Rico. And from there, they flew into Hurricane Janet,' she says.

Herlong was the co-pilot aboard a P2V storm chaser. A ham radio operator heard its mayday that fateful day, and immediately relayed it to the Navy. 'When I saw those Navy men come to my door, I knew he was dead. They searched for eleven days for them and never found a sign of the airplane or of any person. They got sucked down into a down draft,' says Stocker."


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