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About George Welch
George Schwartz Welch was a World War II triple ace, a Distinguished Service Cross recipient, and an experimental aircraft pilot after the war. Welch is best known for having been one of the few United States Army Air Corps fighter pilots able to get airborne to engage Japanese forces in the attack on Pearl Harbor and for his work as a test pilot. Welch resigned from the United States Army Air Forces as a major in 1944, and became a test pilot for North American Aviation.
Everything about George Welch →- Occupation
- military officer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- May 10, 1918
- Died
- October 12, 1954