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FEB. 4th 2012

The four chaplains were Methodist minister George L. Fox, Reformed Church in America minister Clark V. Poling, Roman Catholic priest John P. Washington, and Rabbi Goode. They embarked from New York harbor on the converted troop ship USAT Dorchester on January 23, 1943, bound for Greenland with 904 troops and crew. Just before 1:00 a.m. on February 3, the Dorchester was torpedoed by the German submarine U-223. The damage was severe; the ship immediately lost steam and electrical power. Troops below decks were stranded in darkness in the severely listing ship, scrambling to get out. Those who could rushed for life boats, some of which immediately capsized. Others leapt into the freezing North Atlantic waters and were overcome by hypothermia. 

The four chaplains worked together to help calm the panicked troops. They distributed life vests, which would not protect the men from the cold but would at least give them a fighting chance until rescue vessels arrived. When the supply of life preservers ran out the chaplains without hesitation took off their own vests and handed them to four other soldiers.