Sexo

Male

Fecha de Nacimiento

1918-11-1

Lugar de Nacimiento

Sunnyvale CA, U.S.A.

Inducted

1942-1-1, Moffett Field CA

Tipo de Alistamiento

Volunteer

Afiliación Militar

Army

Tipo de servicio prestado

War

Tipo de unidad militar

Support

Unidades a las que sirvió

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.

Especialidad militar

Army Air Corp Cadet and CIC Special Agent

Asignado

US and Japan.

Retirado

King City CA

Recuerdo más vívido de la experiencia militar

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.)

Información adicional

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.