The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 2, 1926, takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Captain (Air Corps) George E. Price, U.S. Army Air Corps, for extraordinary achievement while participating in an aerial flight on 6 January 1940, at Buffalo, New York. When a structural failure in the new type of airplane in which he was making a high speed power calibration test resulted in the malfunctioning of the landing gear, causing the wheels to become locked in a partially retracted position, Captain Price, with complete disregard of his personal safety and despite the failure of his radio transmitter, decided to make a wheel-up landing rather than abandon the airplane. After signaling his intention to land to officials in the control tower of the airport and being advised by one-way radio to land off the runway in snow about a foot deep, he made a power approach at a high angle, shut off all battery and ignition switches, and made a successful crash landing at the point indicated without material damage to the airplane. The courage, sound judgment, and skill displayed by Captain Price on this occasion were instrumental in saving to the Government the benefit of the two years of intensive research and development which the airplane represented.