World War II Honoree

George R. Price

Branch of Service

U.S. Navy

Hometown

Upper Darby, Pennsylvania

Honored By

Adelaide Price

Relationship

Wife

AVIATION RADIOMAN 2ND CLASS, COMBAT AIR CREWMAN ON U.S. NAVY/CONSOLIDATED PB4Y-2 'PRIVATEER' LONG-RANGE PATROL BOMBER. AFTER BOOT TRAINING AND RADIO SCHOOL AT MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, AND FLIGHT CREW TRAINING AT NAVAL AIR STATIONS AT HUTCHINSON, KANSAS; JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA; AND SAMPSON, NEW YORK, WAS STATIONED AT NAVAL AIR STATION KANCOHE, HAWAII WITH PATROL BOMBING SQUADRON 118 (VPB-118) FOR ACTION IN THE CENTRAL PACIFIC THEATER OF OPERATIONS. FROM TINIAN (MARIANA ISLANDS) PATROL ACTION WAS TURK, IWO JIMA, YAWATA SHIMA AND OKINAWA. THEN BASED AT YONTAN AIRFIELD, OKINAWA, PATROL WAS AROUND TINIAN, THE COAST OF KOREA AND ATTACKS ON AIRFIELDS AT KANOYA, SOUTHERN JAPAN. RETURNED AT WAR'S END TO NAVAL AIR STATION SAN DIEGO FOR SEPARATION FROM THE SERVICE. AWARDED THE PRESIDENTIAL COMBAT UNIT CITATION AND THE COMBAT AIRCREWMAN INSIGNIA WITH ONE STAR.