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OLD NEWS: Arkansan J.D. Price flies across nation in 1923 on way to great big Navy career

December 24, 2023 at 4:30 p.m.

by Celia Storey

Aboard the USS Saratoga on Jan. 10, 1928, Lt. Comdr. John D. Price (right) stands with an unidentified mail orderly in front of a Vought VO-1 seaplane Price had just flown on a mail trip from Hampton Roads, Va., to the Delaware Breakwater. (Naval History and Heritage Command National Archives)
Aboard the USS Saratoga on Jan. 10, 1928, Lt. Comdr. John D. Price (right) stands with an unidentified mail orderly in front of a Vought VO-1 seaplane Price had just flown on a mail trip from Hampton Roads, Va., to the Delaware Breakwater. (Naval History and Heritage Command National Archives)


In December 1923, when Curtis Wain Gates was just 7 years old, a 21-year-old aviator from Arkansas made headlines by flying from San Diego to Washington.

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