The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Clift Price. Price graduated from high school in 1940, at age 16. He completed pre-med at the University of Texas at Austin, graduating in 1943. While in college and throughout medical school, Price was in the V-12 Navy College Training Program. Price was enlisted from September to November of 1943, 4 weeks, at the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station as an apprentice seaman. He was assigned to hospital corps duty, and assigned to retrieve the deceased from airplane crash sites. Price began medical school the first part of 1944, and graduated in March of 1947 at UT Medical Branch. He received 3 years of military duty from his time in the V-12 program. Price later served as a Navy medical officer on a troop carrier and one of only two doctors on a battleship during the Korean War. His tour in the Navy ended in March of 1953.