Description
Melvin (Mel) Price was born in Dunkirk, New York, on January 23, 1926. The son of a World War I veteran, he enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps after graduating high school in 1943, hoping to enroll in the aviation cadet training program. Instead, he was trained as a radio operator and assigned to a B-29 crew. Between 1944 and 1946, Price was based on Tinian Island and flew firebombing and POW missions over Japan until he was honorably discharged with the rank of Staff Sergeant. After the war, Price married his wife, Marie, took an engineering course through the GI Bill, and then worked for Bethlehem Steel for forty years. His Legacy Series interview was recorded in his home in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, in 2023.
Citation
Mel Price Interview, December 6, 2023, 2023-12-06, Legacy Series Oral History Program, 2013-, KSU/14/05/004/01, Museum of History and Holocaust Education, Kennesaw State University.
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Identifier
ksu-14-05-004-01_02033
Format
video/mp4
