The first, “Bomber’s Moon: Girls Beneath the Bombs” (1 hr.), examines the WWII bombings over Europe and Japan with personal accounts of the surviving women and the pilots who dropped the bombs. Discussion with the producer and an eyewitness, who was a Nazi youth at the time, will follow. Then, “Buffalo Soldiers Forever” (30 min.) explores the history of the African-American soldiers who served on the frontier in the post-Civil War army. The film makers, actors and veterans from WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War will be present. You will hear from a Nazi Youth, Silke Sauppe who lived as a child under the bombs,you will meet a WWII 89th Infantry hero, who fought the Nazis, and a Vietnam nurse who saved the lives of injured young men while flying in a C-47. We are honored to have a Korean and Vietnam Veteran who flew over 200 missions in Vietnam. Discussion will follow. Film Festival is from 5:15 – 8 p.m., at PPCC Centennial Campus, Theater, 5675 S. Academy Blvd. This special PPCC/From Mists of Time event is open to the public and free.
Featured War Veteran Guests of Honor
Silke Sauppe, Nazi Youth who grew up under the bombs and in fear of the Nazi rule
Wayne Cash, 89th Infantry Division fighting the Nazis with a 37mm gun and was in Germany on VE day. Recalls the silence of the guns. The 89th Infantry Division liberated a Buchanwald Concentration camp at the end of the war.
Mary Littlejohn Vietnam as a Flight Nurse aboard C-130
aircraft flying to all areas of South Vietnam and into Cambodia and Laos in 1971. Her squadron was responsible for
transporting wounded and ill American troops as well as Vietnamese military and civilian from field units to hospitals.
Loran Smith, Korean and Vietnam veteran. Flew over 260 combat missions in Vietnam from 1969 – 1972. Earning nine Air Medals. I am the most decorated enlisted personal in the Aerospace Physiological Training career field. He is the first African American Chief Master Sergeant (8-9) in the Aerospace Physiological Training
Career Field. He is also a Second Generation Tuskegee Airmen (Korean War through Vietnam War era).
Buffalo Soldier/actor from “Buffalo Soldiers Forever” and Veteran from 10th US Army Regiment from Ft. Carson. George Payton
