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George Welch


 

George Schwartz Welch (May 18, 1918October 12, 1954) was a World War II flying ace, a Medal of Honor nominee, and an experimental aircraft pilot after the war. Many people contest that Welch verifiably broke the sound barrier one week before Chuck Yeager in his prototype P-86 Sabre.

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The Amazing George Welch: Biography

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