Education
United States Military Academy.
United States Military Academy.
George Shibata enlisted in the United States Army in 1945 and volunteered to be a paratrooper, but the war ended before he could be sent to active service. He served with the army of occupation in Germany for 18 months. Shibata became the first Nisei appointed to West Point through the sponsorship of Senator.
Elbert Doctorate. Thomas.
He was commissioned in the United States Air Force in 1951. During the Korean War he flew an F-86 Sabre out of Taegu Air Force Base. He resigned his First Lieutenant"s commission in 1955 to attend the University of California, Los Angeles earning a Bachelor of Laws.
This came about when Clemons accidentally bumped into his old friend Shibata at a drugstore when Clemons was in California acting as a technical adviser for the forthcoming film.
He convinced Shibata to try out for the role of the Hawaii born Japanese-American Executive Officer, Lieutenant Tsugio Ohashi when Hollywood was having a problem casting the role.
During the production Clemons decided to play a joke on his Air Force pilot classmate whose accommodations during the war were more comfortable than Clemons" by ensuring that Shibata wore the only actual flak jacket in the film. The other cast members wearing foam rubber reproductions.
Shibata"s film career was short as he preferred being a lawyer in California to acting.