Today marks the 75th anniversary of the sinking of USAT Dorchester (Feb. 3, 1943).
Four U.S. Army Chaplains gave up their life jackets and prayed
together when their transport ship, the U.S.A.T Dorchester was torpedoed
eighty miles south of Greenland on February 3, 1943. The Chaplains came
from different faiths and backgrounds.
John P. Washington was a Catholic Priest from Kearny, New Jersey,
Rabbi Alexander D. Goode was a native of York, Pennsylvania. Clark V.
Poling was a a minister in the Reformed Church in America at the First
Reformed Church in Schenectady, New York. George L. Fox, a decorated
World War One veteran, was a Methodist minister in Gilman, Vermont.
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