It was the evening of Feb. 2, 1943, and the U.S.A.T. Dorchester was crowded to capacity, carrying 902 service men, merchant seamen and civilian workers when the torpedoes struck. As the ship was sinking in the frigid waters of the North Atlantic, there were not enough life jackets to go around. Four chaplains, two Protestant, one Catholic and one Jewish took their own life jackets off and gave them to the men. The chaplains were last seen standing arm in arm, in prayer, as Americans before God
Commodore Uriah P. Levy Jewish Chapel, U.S. Naval Academy
Jewish Chaplains Memorial on the Bemah of the Chapel
Capt. William Byrne Jr., Jerry Klinger -JASHP, Vice Admiral William Miller, Chaplain LCDR Seth Phillips
Dedication Arlington National Cemetery, 10/25/2011
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