HEROIC CHAPLAINDS
GAVE LIVES FOR TROOPS
Kec. 9 a.m. WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. The War Department announced the award of posthumous D.S.C.'s to four army chaplains who gave up their lives for the troops when the transport Dorchester was torpedoed off Greenland on February 3,- 1943.
After going among the men, encouraging them, and helping them to safety, the chaplains gave up their own life-belts and went down with the ship.
The awards were made to Chaplain C. V. Poling, son of Dr. Daniel Poling, president of the World's Christian Endeavour Union, and Chaplain G. L. Fox, both Protestants, Chaplain J. P. Washington, a Roman Catholic, and Chaplain A. S. Goode, a Jew.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 134, 4 December 1944, Page 4
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