A wartime newspaper clipping profiling an enlisted 12th Army Air Force airman, Sgt. Price, whose off-duty flying exploits became local legend. Flying salvaged and captured aircraft — including an Italian Savoia-Marchetti bomber and a German Fieseler Storch — he was reportedly the first American enlisted man to pilot a Spitfire, and later built and ran an informal flying school using a patchwork Aeronca assembled from parts of a B-26, P-40, P-47, and Spitfire. Clippings such as this illustrate the improvisational culture of Army Air Forces ground crews and pilots operating far from home in the North African and Mediterranean campaigns. Project: 218352