Four Immortal Chaplains and The Sinking of the Dorchester
In the dead of a bitterly cold winter in the middle of the North Atlantic on February 3, 1943, a German submarine torpedoed and sank an American ship, the USS Dorchester, with 900 on board. Only 230 survived. Dan Kurzman's. " No Greater Glory", The Sinking of the Dorchester, tells the wrenching story of the attempt by Four Chaplains, all if different faiths, to save and console crew members as the ship went down. With arms linked, they said final prayers and went down with it. The Four Chaplains have been immortalized on U.S. postage stamps and with a beautiful chapel at the Philadelphia Navy Yard
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No Greater Glory: The Four Immortal Chaplains and the Sinking of the Dorchester in WW II, by Dan Kurzman (2005 - 288 pp)
On the night of Feb 3, 1943, the SS Dorchester with 900 on board was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine. This is the story of four American Chaplains of all faiths who gave their lives helping those on board to survive.