Transcript of an oral interview with Julius “Bud” Masinick. Born in 1925, he was drafted into the Navy in 1943. He describes boot camp at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center in Illinois. He talks about joining both the baseball team and the boxing program. He describes submarine school at Naval Submarine Base New London, Groton, Connecticut. He was assigned to the USS Icefish (SS-367) in the Pacific Fleet in June, 1944. He talks about the submarine attire. He describes being depth charged while on the submarine. He also describes a burial at sea. He talks about being the athletic officer at Camp Dealy on Guam. He shares anecdotes about being the designated swimmer on the submarine who was tasked with ocean rescues of downed pilots; starting a riot in Perth, Australia; intercepting small gunboats and apprehending Japanese officials attempting to return to Japan; and the unintentional sinking of Javanese fishing boats. He was discharged in April, 1946 and played professional minor league baseball.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Robert Dale. Dale joined the Navy in 1944 when he was 16 years old. He was assigned to the heavy cruiser USS Boston (CA-69). Dale served as a fireman in the Engineering Department working with the evaporators. He talks of the Boston shelling the Japanese mainland and being present for the surrender in Tokyo Bay. Dale stayed with the Boston for occupation duty. He describes visiting Hiroshima and interacting with the Japanese people. The Boston returned to the U.S. after six months of occupation duty and Dale left the service.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with J. L. Summers. Summers joined the Army in 1937. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, 36th Division. He traveled to Java with his unit and was captured by the Japanese in early 1942. Summers talks of his time as a POW covering railroad construction, hunger, disease, and punishment suffered at the hands of his Japanese captors. He also discusses being used as tiger bait by the Japanese during a detail. Summers was liberated at the end of the war and returned back to the States where he left the Army.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with James Cooper. Cooper joined the Navy in May 1945 and received basic training in Illinois. There he joined the Blue Jacket Choir. He survived Typhoon Louise as a water tender aboard the USS Admiral W. S. Benson (AP-120), picking up survivors from sunken ships in Buckner Bay. He was transferred to the USS Dorchester (APB-46) as a diesel mechanic and traveled to Wakanura, a small fishing village untouched by war, and Wakayama, where the only buildings left standing were cement bank vaults. Cooper returned home in the summer of 1946 and joined the Reserves. He entered medical school and became an intern at the National Naval Medical Center. He was subsequently assigned as a medical officer aboard destroyers. He recalls encounters with Russian submarines in the Caribbean were routine and cordial. While he was aboard the USS Yosemite (AD-19), an explosion on the USS Bennington (CVA-20) killed over 100 people and left more than 200 severely burned. Cooper was sent to the Newport Naval Hospital and worked for six days beside civilian and military doctors in an ad hoc burn center. He returned to the Yosemite and was …

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Max Schlotter. Schlotter joined the Navy in August 1941 and received basic training in San Diego. He attended service school in Toledo, Ohio. Upon completion, he went to the Brooklyn Navy Yard and converted a banana boat to an attack transport. The ship carried troops just north of Casablanca to Fedala as part of the North Africa invasion. Onboard, Schlotter served as the skipper’s messenger, running errands. He was then promoted to yeoman. He returned to the States and attended Emory University under the V-12 program. He then went to Miami for further training and was assigned to a submarine-chaser. He boarded CVE-1 carrying planes from Long Island to Mogmog. The CVE-1 went to Luzon, where Schlotter took an LSM to Subic Bay. There he boarded a sub-chaser as the executive officer. Apart from enduring a typhoon near Okinawa, his patrols were uneventful. Schlotter returned home and was discharged in February 1946.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Stanley Kuenstler. Kuenstler entered the Navy in 1943. In December 1944 he was assigned to the USS Murphy (DD-603). The USS Murphy escorted the USS Quincy to the Yalta Conference. During the conference King ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia stayed on the USS Murphy and gifted Kuenstler and the crew watches. Following the surrender of Japan, the USS Murphy went on to Nagasaki. Five months before Kuenstler was discharged he transferred from the USS Murphy to the Naval Station and served as an inspector.

Lecture given Sunday, September 19, 2010, 8:30 PM at Abilene Christian University: "How are we to encounter God in Art that fails to honestly confront the brokenness and god-forsakenness in the world? An artist and psychologist suggest we must "leave Eden" to find God in the world."

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Ithiel Worden. Worden joined the Navy in the summer of 1942 at the age of seventeen. He was assigned to the USS Underhill (DE-682). He was assigned to engineering and ran thee evaporators. The Underhill was assigned to convoy duty and traveled to North Africa and the North Atlantic. The Underhill was then assigned to convoy duty in the Pacific. The ship rammed a Japanese Kaiten submarine while escorting a convoy near the Philippines. Worden describes the massive explosion and evacuation efforts that followed. He details how the ship lost almost half of its crew in the incident. Worden was rescued and sent back to the U.S. for 30-day survivor leave. He left the Navy soon after the war ended.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Steven Dittrich. Dittrich was born 15 October 1952 in Oceanside, New York. He is first generation American and grew up in an extended family that spoke German in the household. In his narrative, he relates the experiences his father and grandmother had during World War II. His father, Erwin K. Dittrich, was born in Westheim, Germany 25 March 1923. His grandmother was Jewish while his grandfather was a Christian. In March 1943 his grandmother received a deportation order sending her and her son, Erwin, to a transit camp in Bielefeld, Germany. After two months the mother and son were put aboard a train and sent to Theresienstadt concentration camp where the mother died of starvation in 1944. Erwin was sent to a camp at Trebnitz, Germany. The commandant of the camp was Franz Stuschka who was tried and found guilty of war crimes committed during the war. Erwin’s job was to clean the SS barracks. As the Russian Army advanced the camp was evacuated in February 1945 and he was sent to Theresienstadt. In May 1945 the Nazis turned over control of the camp to the Red Cross …

Transcript of an oral interview with Sun-Ha Lim. Lim discusses growing up in Korea and living under Japanese Colonial Government, being conscripted into the Japanese army and being part of the mainland defense of Japan in 1945. He also discusses a friend deciding to "go crazy" during training to get out of service and having to fight the Americans, then Lim later pulling him out of a "mental deficiency patient curing place" which was actually a cave in a mountain to get him home to Korea after the war.

Lecture given Sunday, September 19, 2010, 7:00 PM at Abilene Christian University

Lecture given Monday, September 20, 2010, 9:00 AM at Abilene Christian University: "Biblical interpretation involves the text, the history of interpretation, and the reader's situation. As readers, we pay close attention to our own prejudices and desires in order to allow God to speak a word today. This class presents general guidelines for discussion."

Lecture given Monday, September 20, 2010, 10:00 AM at Abilene Christian University: "Biblical interpretation involves the text, the history of interpretation, and the reader's situation. As readers, we pay close attention to our own prejudices and desires in order to allow God to speak a word today. This class presents general guidelines for discussion."

Lecture given Monday, September 20, 2010, 1:30 PM at Abilene Christian University: "God's salvation is more than saving the soul; it's remaking the whole of creation, and God's rescuer is also a recruitment to join him in his world-renovating work. Come explore what it means to become co-laborers in God's renovation."

Lecture given Monday, September 20, 2010, 10:00 AM at Abilene Christian University: "If your church has a Spanish outreach or has considered starting one, this class will provide you with tools to begin or improve this new work. This class invites congregation to consider integration as a solution."

Lecture given Monday, September 20, 2010, 3:00 PM at Abilene Christian University.

Lecture given Monday, September 20, 2010, 10:00 AM at Abilene Christian University: "This class identifies several financial "must do's" - specific policies and procedures that each church needs to put in place. We will also identify and discuss problem areas where churches may struggle."

Lecture given Monday, September 20, 2010, 9:00 AM at Abilene Christian University: "As Christians living in the world's only superpower, we must locate ourselves in a story that celebrates the 'Empire of God' over the empires of this world. Which empire will you choose? Egypt? Babylon? Rome? Or the Kingdom of God?"

Lecture given Monday, September 20, 2010, 9:00 AM at Abilene Christian University: "We will explore how Christian identity developed within the larger Greco-Roman world. We will focus on how 1 Peter uses baptism to create Christian identity and to appropriate a non-Christian ethic. What can we learn from how 1 Peter urges Christians to both distance themselves from and identify with society?"

Lecture given Monday, September 20, 2010, 10:00 AM at Abilene Christian University: "Early Christian communities participated in the emergence of an alternative 'racial' option. This unprecedented multicultural life was not accidental; it was fundamental to discipleship. Separating discipleship from diversity has resulted in separation into racially homogeneous congregations. Help reconnect them, and re-energize Christ's body."

Lecture given Monday, September 20, 2010, 4:00 PM at Abilene Christian University: "Come hear the unique story of one young church plant as they join God in unexpected places."

Lecture given Monday, September 20, 2010, 8:30 PM at Abilene Christian University: "The fifth anniversary of hurricanes Katrina and Rita provide opportunity to engage "Trouble the Water," the Sundance Film Festival's Documentary of the Year for 2008. Filmmaker, actress and rapper Kim Rivers Roberts speaks about the film and takes audience questions"

Lecture given Monday, September 20, 2010, 9:00 AM at Abilene Christian University: "These classes explore the interesting history of Christian worship, contemplate a theology of worship, and present guidelines and tools toward planning a liturgy with a particular theme."

Lecture given Monday, September 20, 2010, 9:00 AM at Abilene Christian University: "This class will consist of prayerful methods and techniques for reaching multiple generations of unchurched and de-churched people. The Class will be a short lecture and guided discussion."