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Combat Chaplain - The Personal Story of the WWII Chaplain of the Japanese American 100th Battalion (Paperback)
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Combat Chaplain - The Personal Story of the WWII Chaplain of the Japanese American 100th Battalion (Paperback)
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In June 1944, twenty-seven-year-old combat infantry chaplain Israel
Yost arrived in Italy with the 100th Battalion, a little-known
National Guard unit of mostly Japanese Americans from Hawai'i. Yost
was apprehensive when he learned of his assignment to this unusual
unit composed of soldiers with whom he felt he had little in common
and who were mostly Buddhists. But this would soon change. For the
next nine months at the front - from Salerno to Monte Cassino to
Anzio to Bruyeres - Yost assisted medics, retrieved bodies from the
battlefield, buried enemy soldiers, struggled to bolster morale as
the number of casualties rose higher and higher, and wrote
countless letters of condolence, all in addition to fulfilling his
ministerial duties, which included preaching in the foxholes.
Although his sermons won few converts, Yost's tireless energy and
concern for others earned him admiration from his fellow soldiers,
who often turned to him as a trusted friend and spiritual advisor.
Forty years after the war had ended, with the help of his field
diaries and the letters he had written almost daily to his wife,
Yost wrote of his wartime experiences in the hopes that they might
one day be published as a record of the remarkable character and
accomplishments of the 100th. ""Combat Chaplain"" presents this
heartfelt memoir intact with the addition of photographs and
subsequent letters and speeches by Yost and other veterans.
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