The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Burman Stewart. Stewart joined the Navy in February of 1944. Beginning in May, he served as a seaman aboard the SS Sea Runner (1944), a passenger and cargo ship. In June they transported supplies and Seabees for the Battle of Saipan, going ashore by tank landing ships. Stewart operated the cranes to lower and raise the boats into the water. Stewart and his shipmates served on the island of Hawaii until January of 1945, then they transported the 12th Service Marine Division to the Battle of Iwo Jima. In April they delivered a group of soldiers from Guam to the Battle of Okinawa. In June they transferred back to Hawaii, where Stewart served on the island until his discharge in January of 1946.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Wayne Holtzman. Holtzman joined the NROTC at Northwestern and graduated in February 1944 with a degree in chemistry and a commission in the Navy. He then boarded the USS Iowa (BB-61) as an antiaircraft gunnery officer. After performing an intense but brief shore bombardment at Iwo Jima, he watched the invasion. At Okinawa, the Iowa unleashed tremendous fire power on kamikazes, almost running out of ammunition. An enemy plane broke through the curtain and nearly struck the Iowa before it was finally pulverized, falling to the ship as a pile of flaming debris. As with other gunnery officers, Holtzman lost his hearing, having spent so much time beside the guns, and was reassigned to communications as a coding officer. Receiving top-secret messages, he inferred the war would soon end and that something big would end it. After the bomb was dropped, Holtzman watched the signing of the peace treaty and went to conduct reconnaissance at Yokosuka. He traveled to Tokyo, which had been completely leveled. After returning home and being discharged into the Reserves in June 1946, Holtzman joined the Air Force as a researcher, studying the factors …

A student recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.