JAMES "JIM" PRICE

1st Lieutenant, USMC

Earned the "PERFORMANCE" Ace Ability

EVENT	Miss #	Mission Type	Flight Position	Kills	Type of Kills		Number of times shot down	Escort Points	Status	Ace Ability
GMT-2002	1	Escort B-26	F4F-4 Wm	0	None		1	0	Active	---
CSW-2004	2	Dogfight	F4F-4 Wm	1	A6M2		0	---	Active	---
CSW-2004	3	Dogfight	F4F-4 Ldr	0	None		1	---	Active	---
CSW-2004	4	Dogfight	F4F-4 Ldr	1	A6M2		0	---	Active	---
CSW-2004	5	Dogfight	F4F-4 Ldr	0	None		1	---	Active	---
CSW-2004	6	Dogfight	F4F-4 Ldr	0	None		1	---	Active	---
		Transferred to the 1944 Pacific Campaign
CSW-2009	7	Intercept G4M2	F4U-1 Ldr	3	2 G4M2s & 1 A6M5		0	0	Active	---
CSW-2009	8	Intercept B6N & D4Y	F4U-1 Ldr	0	None		1	0	Active	P
CSW-2009	9	Dogfight	F4U-1 Ldr	1	Ki-84-1a		0	0	Active	P
CSW-2010	10	Escort TBF	F4U-1 Ldr	0	None		1	+2	Active	P
CSW-2011	11	Dogfight	F4U-1 Ldr	0	None		1	---	POW	P
TOTALS	11			6	1 Ki-84-1a	2 G4M2s	7	+2	POW	P
					2 A6M2s	1 A6M5

PILOT HISTORY:

• Started career in the Autumn 1942 South Pacific campaign.  Assigned as wingman to 1st Lt. Joe Yeager from missions 1-to-2
• Shot down by Japanese Naval 36-Kill ace, Lt. Takeo Sushimi (Sushimi's 6th victory), on mission 1
• Assigned as element leader starting mission 2 after 1st Lt. Yeager was killed
• Shot down by Japanese Naval 55-Kill ace, Lt. Cdr. Shintaro Mendo (Mendo's 36th victory), on mission 3
• Shot down by Japanese Naval 36-Kill ace,  Lt. Takeo Sushimi (Sushimi's 16th victory), on mission 5.
• Shot down by Japanese Naval 55-Kill ace, Lt. Cdr. Shintaro (Mendo Mendo's 48th victory), on mission 6
• Transitioned to the F4U-1 Corsair and to the 1944 Pacific Campaign starting mission 7
• Promoted to 1st Lt. before mission 7
• The FIRST Corsair pilot Ace in the Down in Flames Aces' Campaigns after mission 7
• Shot down by Japanese Naval 6-Kill ace, Lt. Jg. Uni Katana, (Katana's 6th victory), on mission 10

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