Suzanne Simon Dietz

Photo by Frank Fletcher Broucek.

Historian & Author

Suzanne Simon Dietz is the historian for the Aero Club of Buffalo and served for a decade as the Town of Porter historian, home to Old Fort Niagara.  She is a popular lecturer in Western New York on German prisoners of war and local history topics.

Suzanne served as a consult to Finstripe Productions, Scotland, for “The Day the Bomb Dropped” aired on the Smithsonian Channel, which included Theodore “Dutch” Van Kirk’s final interview about Hiroshima. She is the authorized biographer of Van Kirk, the navigator of the B-29 Enola Gay in World War II. Van Kirk passed away as the last survivor of the atomic bomb missions.

                  

“Beyond the Guard Towers” POW Camp Fort Niagara published by Old Fort Niagara Association.

Below, “My True Course” on the book shelf at Wright-Patterson Air Force Museum shop.