Word: kurtz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pilot Kurtz the war began on a sunny day at Clark Field near Manila when the news of Pearl Harbor had just begun to sink in. The exact moment came when the pilots were waiting for orders for their first combat mission: a reconnaissance of Formosa, which they could not attack because the U.S. Congress had not yet declared war. From the direction of Formosa, as they knew they would, some 70 Japanese bombers came over and blew Clark Field to hell with a beautiful pattern of bombs, unmolested from the air, little molested from the ground. Twenty-four Flying...
Lieut. Colonel Frank Kurtz, ex-Olympic high diver, pilot of the old Flying Fortress Swoose, which has "worn ruts" across the Pacific ferrying Lieut. General George Brett, former United Nations Air Force Commander in the Southwest Pacific, knew the story. He had flown the long battle of airfields from Clark Field in the Philippines to the bastion of Australia. This week the story was out, in a new book by War Correspondent W. L. White (They Were Expendable, TIME, Sept. 28). Using the formula that was such a sensational success in the tale of the PT boats in the Philippines...
...Long Retreat. Frank Kurtz lost his plane and his entire crew. From the control tower of the field, later on, he watched Colin Kelly die. Kurtz heard a plane coming in, looked up at the low-hanging clouds. Eight parachutes dropped from them; then he saw "a dark object go hurtling into the ground." That was Kelly, who stuck with the ship until it was too late for his own chute to open...
...Frank Kurtz and his crew the war was a succession of airfields from which they flew until they were lost. There was Del Monte on Mindanao, "a pretty turf field right up against the big pineapple cannery." They used it first as a base, then, as the Japs drew closer, as a place to load bombs and gas on missions flown from Australia, "touching it as lightly as you would a hot stove." They flew 18 hours a day, with minutes of cat naps in between, until they were sent down to Java...
Thomas Theodore Hoffman, Alexander Louis Jackson, 3d., John Pressly Kennedy, Jr., Joseph Anthony King, Jr., Robert Fulton Kurtz, Elliott Charles Lasser, Truman Saul Licht, Russell Frank Locke, Jr., James Logan, Jr., Henry Hixon Meyer, Jr., Clarence Fahnestock Michalis, Ernest Albert Mitchell, John Acton Morgan, Roland Ernest Mueser, Sean Buller Murphy, Henry Norris Platt, Jr., Alfred Howard Renshaw, Walter Barnwell Saunders, Dorraine Ward Slingerland, William Edward Smith, Arthur Sumner Tarlow, Richard Lawrence Wechsler, Edward Tubbs Wentworth, Jh., Walter Chadbourne Wilson, Jr., Benjamin Tappan Wright...