sentences:  Kurtz joined the Army to train as a pilot, anticipating a career in commercial aviation.Before the war, he held the national junior transcontinental speed record and established half a dozen other speed marks for light planes.He was Commander of the 463d Bombardment Group (Heavy), 15th Air Force, Celone Airfield, Foggia, Italy (1944–45) and a survivor of the air attack at Clark Field in the Philippines, two days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.