Combat Chaplain The Personal Story of the WWII Chaplain of the Japanese American 100th Battalion
Combat Chaplain: The Personal Story of the WWII Chaplain of the Japanese American 100th Battalion

In October 1943, 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...

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1. Verfasser: Yost, Israel A. S. (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Markrich, Michael (MitwirkendeR, HerausgeberIn), Yost, Monica E. (MitwirkendeR), Yost, Monica (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Honolulu University of Hawaii Press [2006]
Schlagworte:
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military
Japanese American soldiers
World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, American
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Italy
World War, 1939-1945 > Chaplains > United States > Biography
Online-Zugang:DE-1043
DE-1046
DE-858
DE-859
DE-860
DE-739
DE-473
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Zusammenfassung:In October 1943, 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 nineteen 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
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021)
Beschreibung:1 online resource (320 pages) 40 illus
ISBN:9780824861933
DOI:10.1515/9780824861933

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