George Welch
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican flying ace (1918-1954)
United StatesLived 1918 to 1954 · aged 36George Schwartz Welch was a World War II triple ace, a Distinguished Service Cross recipient, and an experimental aircraft pilot after the war.
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Senator James H. Hughes (D-Del.); Mrs. Hughes; Mrs. Julia Welch Schwartz and Mr. George L. Schwartz, Welch's parents; and Lieutenant Welch shaking hands with President Roosevelt, 1942![A replica P-40 being moved for display at Wheeler Army Airfield, with markings identical to the one flown by Welch[16]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/P-40_movie_prop_at_Wheeler.jpg/1280px-P-40_movie_prop_at_Wheeler.jpg)
A replica P-40 being moved for display at Wheeler Army Airfield, with markings identical to the one flown by Welch[16]
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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.
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