性別

Male

生年月日

1918-11-1

出生地

Sunnyvale CA, U.S.A.

入隊した年

1942-1-1, Moffett Field CA

入隊のタイプ

Volunteer

所属・部署

Army

兵役のタイプ

War

所属部隊のタイプ

Support

所属部隊

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.

特殊技能

Army Air Corp Cadet and CIC Special Agent

最終目標

US and Japan.

除隊した年

King City CA

軍隊生活で最も記憶に残っている出来事

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.)

その他の情報

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.