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George T. Aihara
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Birth date | 1918-11-1 |
| Place of birth | Sunnyvale CA, U.S.A. |
| Inducted | 1942-1-1, Moffett Field CA |
| Enlistment type | Volunteer |
| Service branch | Army |
| Service type | War |
| Unit type | Support |
| Units served | US Army Air Corp and US Army Counterintelligence Corp. Discharged one month after original enlistment in January 1942 as an Aviation Cadet at King City, US Army Air Corp Training Detachment, CA. Drafted at Bufffalo, NY, Dec. 1944 and discharged Nov. 1947 at Fort Lawton, WA. |
| Military specialty | Army Air Corp Cadet and CIC Special Agent |
| Stationed | US and Japan. |
| Separated | King City CA |
| Most vivid memory of military experience | Being released from service in the Army Air Corps, within a month of enlistment in 1942, due to Japanese ancestry. (Was inducted into service via the draft almost three years later, in December of 1944.) |
| Additional information | Excerpts from local newspapers in 1941: George Aihara, 22, San Jose State College senior flying student, became the first Japanese in the United States to get a federal flight instructor's rating. Holding both a student pilot's license and a commercial license, Aihara, with 450 hours of solo flying to his credit successfully passed his instructor's flying test. Aihara will remain at the local airport as instructor of the San Jose State College flying clubs. |
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