WORLD WAR II
Died Non Battle - Killed in a training flight with a student pilot in Bainbridge, Georgia
Son of George Herman and Octa Maria Leib Belch.
MASSILLON - The funeral of Lt. George I. Belch, 22, of the army air corps will be held at the Gordon Shaldnagle Hollinger Funeral Home, Monday at 2 p.m. with the Rev. John Wanamaker of the First Baptist Church officiating. Interment will be in Rose Hill Memorial Park.
Lt. Belch was a fighter pilot stationed at Bainbridge Army Air Field in Georgia and was killed late Wednesday afternoon in the crash of his plane at Babcock Field, 7 miles from Bainbridge.
He was a member of the First Baptist Church, Sons of the Legion and was active in Boy Scout work.
He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George H. Belch of 1005 Irvington Ave.; a brother, John Robert Belch of Baldwin Wallace College; and a grandmother, Mrs. Lottie Royer of Uniontown.
Published in The Evening Independent, July 14, 1944
Narrative of eyewitness statements from the Clemson Scroll of Honor:
1. Lt. Belch was on a local training route with a student at an altitude on 1000 feet.
2. The plane was last seen at an altitude of about 200 feet with the engine idling. It then made a turn close to the ground and hit causing the whole plane to burn.
3. It is unknown exactly what happened to make the ship crash, but the plane stalled due to either a simulated or an actual forced landing at Babcock Auxiliary Field.
4. The accident occurred one and a half miles southwest of the airfield.
Died Non Battle - Killed in a training flight with a student pilot in Bainbridge, Georgia
Son of George Herman and Octa Maria Leib Belch.
MASSILLON - The funeral of Lt. George I. Belch, 22, of the army air corps will be held at the Gordon Shaldnagle Hollinger Funeral Home, Monday at 2 p.m. with the Rev. John Wanamaker of the First Baptist Church officiating. Interment will be in Rose Hill Memorial Park.
Lt. Belch was a fighter pilot stationed at Bainbridge Army Air Field in Georgia and was killed late Wednesday afternoon in the crash of his plane at Babcock Field, 7 miles from Bainbridge.
He was a member of the First Baptist Church, Sons of the Legion and was active in Boy Scout work.
He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George H. Belch of 1005 Irvington Ave.; a brother, John Robert Belch of Baldwin Wallace College; and a grandmother, Mrs. Lottie Royer of Uniontown.
Published in The Evening Independent, July 14, 1944
Narrative of eyewitness statements from the Clemson Scroll of Honor:
1. Lt. Belch was on a local training route with a student at an altitude on 1000 feet.
2. The plane was last seen at an altitude of about 200 feet with the engine idling. It then made a turn close to the ground and hit causing the whole plane to burn.
3. It is unknown exactly what happened to make the ship crash, but the plane stalled due to either a simulated or an actual forced landing at Babcock Auxiliary Field.
4. The accident occurred one and a half miles southwest of the airfield.
WORLD WAR II
Died Non Battle - Killed in a training flight with a student pilot in Bainbridge, Georgia
Son of George Herman and Octa Maria Leib Belch.
MASSILLON - The funeral of Lt. George I. Belch, 22, of the army air corps will be held at the Gordon Shaldnagle Hollinger Funeral Home, Monday at 2 p.m. with the Rev. John Wanamaker of the First Baptist Church officiating. Interment will be in Rose Hill Memorial Park.
Lt. Belch was a fighter pilot stationed at Bainbridge Army Air Field in Georgia and was killed late Wednesday afternoon in the crash of his plane at Babcock Field, 7 miles from Bainbridge.
He was a member of the First Baptist Church, Sons of the Legion and was active in Boy Scout work.
He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George H. Belch of 1005 Irvington Ave.; a brother, John Robert Belch of Baldwin Wallace College; and a grandmother, Mrs. Lottie Royer of Uniontown.
Published in The Evening Independent, July 14, 1944
Narrative of eyewitness statements from the Clemson Scroll of Honor:
1. Lt. Belch was on a local training route with a student at an altitude on 1000 feet.
2. The plane was last seen at an altitude of about 200 feet with the engine idling. It then made a turn close to the ground and hit causing the whole plane to burn.
3. It is unknown exactly what happened to make the ship crash, but the plane stalled due to either a simulated or an actual forced landing at Babcock Auxiliary Field.
4. The accident occurred one and a half miles southwest of the airfield.
Died Non Battle - Killed in a training flight with a student pilot in Bainbridge, Georgia
Son of George Herman and Octa Maria Leib Belch.
MASSILLON - The funeral of Lt. George I. Belch, 22, of the army air corps will be held at the Gordon Shaldnagle Hollinger Funeral Home, Monday at 2 p.m. with the Rev. John Wanamaker of the First Baptist Church officiating. Interment will be in Rose Hill Memorial Park.
Lt. Belch was a fighter pilot stationed at Bainbridge Army Air Field in Georgia and was killed late Wednesday afternoon in the crash of his plane at Babcock Field, 7 miles from Bainbridge.
He was a member of the First Baptist Church, Sons of the Legion and was active in Boy Scout work.
He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George H. Belch of 1005 Irvington Ave.; a brother, John Robert Belch of Baldwin Wallace College; and a grandmother, Mrs. Lottie Royer of Uniontown.
Published in The Evening Independent, July 14, 1944
Narrative of eyewitness statements from the Clemson Scroll of Honor:
1. Lt. Belch was on a local training route with a student at an altitude on 1000 feet.
2. The plane was last seen at an altitude of about 200 feet with the engine idling. It then made a turn close to the ground and hit causing the whole plane to burn.
3. It is unknown exactly what happened to make the ship crash, but the plane stalled due to either a simulated or an actual forced landing at Babcock Auxiliary Field.
4. The accident occurred one and a half miles southwest of the airfield.
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