# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-welch
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:06:53.733Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-welch"
name: "George Welch"
slug: "george-welch"
description: "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."
tagline: "American flying ace (1918–1954)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/George_S_Welch.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1918-05-10"
deathDate: "1954-10-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.41
  momentum:             12.95952475079909
  historical:           5.762174666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Welch"
    title: "George Welch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B4"
    title: "جورج ويلش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Welch"
    title: "George Welch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B6_%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%87"
    title: "Джордж Велч"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Welch_(pilot)"
    title: "George Welch (pilot)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Welch"
    title: "George Welch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1508574"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump