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Volume 6, Issue 24 20 February, 2014 Price: Free! AN INTERVIEW WITH Saints and Soldiers DIRECTOR RYAN LITTLE Today, I am going to interview Ryan Little, the man behind the Saints and Soldiers series. COOP: When you were a student, what war fascinated you when you in your U.S. History Class? RYAN: Since I'm from Vancouver, Canada I didn't learn too much about U.S. History. But my Grandfather was born in United States and was a WWII veteran. He served as a communications officer at Pearl Harbor. We would watch all the classic war films together. I think that is where my interest in WWII comes from. COOP: Did your parents or your grandparents serve in the military? RYAN: My Grandfather was at Pearl Harbor as a Communication Officer. COOP: If your parents or your grandparents served in the military, did you use them as an inspiration for the Saints and Soldiers Series? RYAN: My Grandfather was always very open Years of War about his experience in the war. Besides Is written, edited, and designed by students in the Selah that mostly I would read books and watch School District, Washington State. movies on the subject. To reach us by phone, call (509) 697-0500 ext. 543 Journalism Club Advisor: Mr. Bryan Dibble COOP: What is so special about the Saints and By mail at Years of War Soldiers Series? 411 N. First Street, Selah, WA 98942 Or email: [email protected] RYAN: All of the Saints films are centered Have a copy mailed or emailed to you! around the theme that we have to be careful how we judge people. That's a big part of what inspires me to make these films. Also making these films has been a way for me to say thank-you to all the people who sacrificed so much for our freedom. I like to remind people that "The price of Freedom is not free." I love showing these films to Veterans. I think they appreciate the effort we have made to honor them. COOP: What is your favorite movie from the Saints and Soldiers Series? RYAN: I love them all. I really do. The first one was really exciting to make since it was my first film. The second was great to make because it was so much fun. The latest one was excited because we had five tanks on set for the whole film. COOP: Is the third movie of the Saint and Soldiers Series going to be released in theaters or is it going to be on DVD? RYAN: The new Saints and Soldiers film "The Void" will be released in theatres this summer. Then it will be available on DVD in the fall. COOP: What was your favorite prop that Mr. Dibble sent you? RYAN: Bryan sent us a lot of cool props. I would say my favorite are the medical packages he sent us that have all the cool original packing and writing on them. Very cool reproductions. COOP: Do you want Mr. Dibble to make more props for you? RYAN: Of course! Working with Bryan is great and I hope we continue to get a chance to work on more projects in the future. COOP: What is your favorite war movie? RYAN: I really love "Saving Private Ryan" but "Kelly's Heroes" is awesome too. I know it's not a WWII movie, but I also love the old TV show "Combat." So much fun to watch. COOP: Do you like making some war movies like the Saints and Soldiers Series? RYAN: I really love making war film. I love honoring Veterans. I love the cool uniforms and weapons. The armor is great! COOP: Do you want to make some more war movies in the future? RYAN: I am going to take a break from war films for a bit. I have a Sci-Fi movie I am doing this summer and then in the fall I am doing a Supernatural thriller. Perhaps another war film after that. Ryan told me that, "When I am on a film, there is so little time.” It was very cool for me to interview a working movie director who is working in the motion picture business and I appreciated Ryan taking the time to answer my questions. World War Two. A time of nothing but fighting and hate. People sitting in their house, waiting for the call from their sweetheart or father that may never come. But in this field of death, there is one who risks his life to save the lives of his comrades. This courageous man is the Combat Medic. -By Troy Cline Few people are aware of the personal sacrifices the aid men went through. They were always on the front line, desperately trying to keep his allies alive. More than often enough, the medic faced the enemies head-on with no weapons (other than syringes of medicine). It all started as an establishment of an Apothecary General during the American Revolution. It was during the Civil War that the Director of the Army of the Potomac, Jonathan Letterman, saw a need for an integrated medical treatment and evacuation system. The Letterman plan was first implied in 1862 at the battle of Antietam, Maryland. The next major development of the Medical Service Corps occurred in World War I. The U.S. Army Ambulance Service was established on the 23 of June, 1917 as a descendant of the Ambulance Corps. Another Corporation that was a temporary component of World War I was the Sanitary Corp. Today, the Medical Service Corp mirrors the Sanitary Corp. Officers in the Sanitary Corp served in medical logistics, hospital administration, patient administration, resource management, x-ray, laboratory engineering, physical reconstruction, gas defense, and venereal disease control. The main objective of the World War Two combat medic was to get the wounded and injured out of the front lines. The medic would climb out of the fox-hole to get the patient out of harm’s way. The medic would try to do everything he could to keep his comrade alive until he reached the hospital tent or building. Many don’t know that if a wounded soldier was still alive, then he had an excellent chance of survival. In the camps where the Combat Medic was trained, he was often despised by the soldiers and called names like “Pill Pushers” or even worse! On the battlefield, however, they were admired and respected. These Medics are dedicated members of the medical team established to focus on the enemy threats and not epidemic threats. There you have it. The people most respected in the American Army during World War I and II was not the Marines or the Front Line Soldiers, no. The hero of the War was the Combat Medic. They may not be the strongest people in the Army, but they are the reason that you can have such a strong army and can feel the warmth of your father when he returns home. Medic! The Hitler Bomb Plot th When Stauffenberg planted the bomb under the table in the Wolf’s Lair (Picture to the Left), he left quickly after. The other officers that were in the building were blown out the windows of the lair from the bomb's detonation. Not everyone that was in the lair was killed by the explosion. There were about six out of eleven (including Hitler) that survived. Hitler survived the explosion because his feet were guarded by a plank of wood under the table. In which the bomb was on the other side. He was even healthy enough to attend another meeting that afternoon. It’s shocking how Hitler wasn’t killed or if anyone survived the attack because the bomb destroyed the entire inside of the structure. by Connor Anderson The date was July 20 , 1944. Hitler called a meeting in his “Wolf’s Lair”, located at Rastenburg in East Prussia. Colonel Claus Von Stauffenberg was meeting with Hitler daily so no suspicions were aroused. Colonel Stauffenberg was in charge of keeping the briefcase (bomb) in the room with Hitler, and many other high officers. Hitler called in the meeting because Hitler knew Germany was going to be defeated by the allies if Germany can’t think of anything quick. The meeting was also about how they can continue their conquest and take back the land. High senior officers of Germany's army had a plan to assassinate Hitler by planting a bomb in the Wolf’s Lair during the meeting. The attack began with a plan made up by a group of high-level German military leaders that recognized that Hitler was leading Germany in a suicidal war on two fronts. The group of officers believed without Hitler, a new government in Berlin would save the German empire to defeat by the allies. The attempt was one of the 17 known attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler. The officers that were included in the plan also believed that they themselves can rule the world and have control of the German/Nazi Empire. The principal figures in the plot were Ludwig Beck (Former General), Wilhelm Canaris (Head of Military Intelligence), Heinrich Von Stulpnagel (Military Governor of France), Friedrich Olbricht (Colonel-General), and Claus Von Stauffenberg (Colonel; Chief of Staff Army Reserve). Stauffenberg was a career army officer and had served in the polish campaign and the attacks on Western Europe in 1940. So he would be the right man for the job. The casualties of the failed attempt were high, although there weren’t much people in the Wolf’s Lair. There were many followers and supporters of the plot, including the senior officers and Stauffenberg. Stauffenberg and all the other officers that were sentenced to execution were killed by a firing squad. All of the followers and supporters were captured and arrested and/or executed. Three officers out the five thousand that were, were executed, and one of those was Stauffenberg. Only one assistant of the five thousand that were, was arrested. Stauffenberg was executed by the firing squad the next day (July 21st, 1944). He died at the age of 37. This event in history is very memorial. There were multiple movies made from it. For example, 2008’s “Valkyrie” had Tom Cruise play as Colonel Stauffenberg. The movie is very specific and almost 100% correct. In history, Stauffenberg was a victim of a low flying airplane attack. He lost his right forearm, 2 fingers on his left hand, and his right eye. In the movie, Stauffenberg only has his right eye missing. So although his characteristics aren’t completely correct, the information they put in the story are. The Hitler Bomb Plot (20 July Plot) was a historic event during WWII. It is a country against country event. James Harold “Jimmy” Doolittle by Jacobe Lee James Doolittle was born here in America, in the state of California in the city of Alameda. He spent his youth growing up in Nome, Alaska where he also earned his reputation as a boxer. By the year of 1910, jimmy was already attending school in Los Angeles, California. Doolittle saw his very first airplane when his school attended the 1910 Los Angeles International Air Meet at Dominguez Field. After he graduated from the Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles, he attended the Los Angeles City College. He then later won admission to the University of California, Berkeley, where he then studied at The School of Mines, which is a term used for many engineering schools focused on mining engineering and applied science. In 1917, he enlisted to the Signal Corps Reserve as a flying cadet, flight-trained at the Rockwell Field, California, and ground-trained at the University of California. On March 11, 1918, he received his RMA and was commissioned to a first lieutenant in the Signal Officers Reserve Corps. In James military career, during WWI, he stayed in the United States as a flight instructor. He had war service at Camp John Dick Aviation Concentration. On May 10, 1921, he was engineering officer and pilot for an expedition recovering a plane that had forcelanded in a Mexican canyon on February 10. He then found the plane a on May 3 and found it serviceable. He returned May 8 with a replacement motor and four mechanics. The additional parts were dropped by air and installed, and Doolittle flew the plane to Del Rio, Texas. He flew the plane himself. Doolittle was one of the most famous pilots during the inter-war period. He flew a de Havilland DH-4 which he flew in many of the first pioneering flights, which was also equipped with early navigational instruments. In 1926, Doolittle was given a leave of absence to go to South America to perform demonstration flights. He broke both of his ankles in Chile, with his ankles in casts; he performed aerial maneuvers with his ankles in casts. He returned to the United States, and was confined to the Walter Reed Army Hospital for his injuries until April 1927, then assigned to McCook Field for experimental work, with additional duty as an instructor pilot to the 385th Bomb Squadron of the Air Corps Reserve. He was the first to perform an outside loop, which was first thought of to be a deadly maneuver. Doolittle performed the dive from 10,000 feet, and reached 280 miles per hour. In the middle of Doolittle’s military career, he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel on January 2, 1942, and was assigned to Army Air Forces to plan the first air raid on the Japanese homeland. He received approval from General H.H. Arnolds to lead the top-secret attack of 16 B-25 medium bombers from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet with targets in Tokyo, Kobe, Yokohama, Osaka, and Nagoya. On April 18, all the bombers successfully took off from the Hornet, reached Japan, and bombed their targets. Fifteen of their own planes from the bombing then headed for China to the recovery airfield. In July 1942, as a Brigadier General– he had been promoted by two grades on the day after the Tokyo attack, by-passing the rank of full colonel. In September Doolittle became commanding general of the Twelfth Air Force , soon to be operating in North Africa. He was promoted to Major General in November 1942, and in March 1943 became commanding general of the Northwest African Strategic Air Force. He took command of the Fifteenth Air Force in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations in November, 1943. During the Postwar, In 1947, Doolittle also became the first president of the Air Force Association, an organization which he helped create. In 1972, Doolittle received the Tony Jannus Award for his distinguished contributions to commercial aviation, in recognition of the development of instrument flight. On April 4, 1985, the U.S. Congress promoted Doolittle to the rank of full General on the Air Force retired list. James Doolittle married Josephine Daniels on December 24, 1917. The Doolittle’s had two sons, James Jr., and John. Both became military aviators. James Jr. was a A-26 invader pilot during WW||, and committed suicide in 1958. James Jr. was a Major and commander. His other son, John P. Doolittle, retired from the Air Force as a Colonel, and his grandson, Colonel James H. Doolittle, III, was the vice commander of the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base, California. James H. "Jimmy" Doolittle died at the age of 96, on Sep. 27, 1993. And is buried next to his wife, near Washington D.C. In his honor at the funeral, there was also a flyover of Miss Mitchell, a lone B-25 Mitchell, and USAF Eighth Air Force bombers from Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana. After a brief graveside service, Doolittle's great-grandson played Taps flawlessly. THE WILLY’S JEEP by Nic Lydin The WWII jeep was made from 1942 to 1945 the U.S. military decided to command a light reconnaissance vehicle. The Willys jeep only weighed 3650 pounds. The American Bantam Car Company, Ford, and Willys made jeep proto types for the military. With a 60 horse power engine and 105 foot-pounds of torque it not only passed the military’s requirements, it dwarfed the bantam’s 83 feet pounds and Fords 85 feet pounds of torque, they were the only other competitors were for the military contract. The Willys jeep had a range of 285 miles and a 15 gallon fuel capacity. They had a maximum speed of 65 mph. The Willy’s had a “Go Devil” engine witch was a 4-134 L Head Motor. It was called the L head because the exhaust and the intake were inside the block. Most automobiles have valves in the head. The MB used a different carburetor than the civilian models. The L-Head engine uses a cast iron block and cylinder head with 3 main bearings and mechanical filters. One of the DOD specifications required the vehicles to be able to drive under an object that was 3 feet high. The Willy’s jeep was widely used from being a scout vehicle to a heavily armed fighting machine. The military added armor to the jeeps and added mounts so that they can add a bazooka or two or a machine gun. The military also made a fording kit for them. World War II by KayLee Bellotti World War II started on September 1, 1939, all though some say it started before. It was a global war that lasted 6 years (1939-1945). The United States didn’t enter the war till December 7, 1941 when Pearl Harbor was bombed by Japan. World War II consisted of 100 million people from 30 countries. This was total war. So far in human history this is the deadliest conflict with 50 million to 85 million fatalities. Out of all causes of World War II, the desire and ability of Adolf Hitler, in control of Nazi Germany, to dominate Europe and gain control especially of the agrarian resources to the east of Germany was the primary one. Hitler was allied with Japan, which wanted to dominate Asia, and including a large part of China and Italy. By 1939, Hitler had already taken over Austria and Czechoslovakia. Hitler thought Britain and France were bluffing when they warned to declare war if Hitler attacked Poland, and signed the agreement with the Soviet Union anyways (Wikipedia-Causes of War). Hitler wasn’t only trying to conquer places in Europe/Asia but he was also eliminating the Jewish. He killed two thirds of the 9 million Jews in the Holocaust. Over one million being children, approximately two million being woman, and three million being men. Being sent to over 40,000 facilities in German and German-occupied territory were used to concentrate, hold, and kill Jews and other victims.(Wikipedia: The Holocaust) Before the United States entered the war there was all of these other battles going on. July 10, 1940-October 31,1940 the air war known as the Battle of Britain ended in defeat. July 10, 1940 is when Italy entered the war then invaded southern france 11 days later (July 21,1940). Japan bomb Pearl harbor on December 7,1941 then a day later we declared war on Japan. Then Nazi Germany and axis partners declared war on the US on December 11-13, 1941. British troops defeated the Germans on October 23-24, 1942 at El Alamein in Egypt. September 2, 1945 Japan finally surrenders ending World War II.(United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)