Little Eleanor, just 5 days old and wearing a hooded fuzzy bear onesie, slept soundly in her mother’s arms as they waited on the pier by the aircraft carrier. She was about to meet her father, aviation machinist’s mate Raymond Dillon, for the first time. “Today is actually her due date — so he is late but she was also early,” mom Jana Dillon said with a laugh. Thousands of families braved .