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The '''Four Chaplains,''' also sometimes referred to as the "Immortal Chaplains," were four [[United States Army]] [[chaplain#Military|chaplains]] who gave their lives to save other civilian and military personnel during the sinking of the troop ship [[USAT Dorchester|USAT ''Dorchester'']] on February 3, 1943, during [[World War II]]. They helped other soldiers board lifeboats and gave up their own [[Personal flotation device|life jackets]] when the supply ran out. The chaplains joined arms, said prayers, and sang hymns as they went down with the ship.
The '''Four Chaplains''', also referred to as the '''Immortal Chaplains''' or the '''''Dorchester'' Chaplains''', were four [[Military chaplain|chaplains]] who died rescuing civilian and military personnel as the American troop ship {{SS|Dorchester}} sank on February 3, 1943, in what has been referred to as the one of the worst sea disasters of [[World War II]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Phillips|first1=Tamra|title=Faith Walks and Talks: The 150-Year History of Grace Baptist--The Church That Founded Temple University|date=2022|publisher=Decentagen Publishing|location=Blue Bell}}</ref>


The ''Dorchester,'' a civilian [[Ocean liner|liner]], had been converted for military service in World War II as a [[Troopship|troop transport]] of the [[War Shipping Administration]]. The ship left New York on January 23, 1943, en route to Greenland, carrying approximately 900 as part of a convoy of three ships escorted by Coast Guard Cutters ''Tampa'', ''Escanaba'', and ''Comanche''.<ref name="avc" /> During the early morning hours of February 3, the vessel was torpedoed by the {{GS|U-223}} off [[Newfoundland and Labrador|Newfoundland]] in the North Atlantic.<ref name="The Saga of the Four Chaplains" /> The chaplains helped the other soldiers board lifeboats and gave up their own [[personal flotation device|life jackets]] when the supply ran out.<ref name="grace">{{cite book |title=The Wonder of Grace |last=Eastwood |first=John H. |author-link=John H. Eastwood |publisher=Companion Press |isbn=1-56043-572-0 |year=1995 |chapter=17: A Personal Testimony |pages=123–124 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=PCYQ-QLIsigC}}</ref> The chaplains joined arms, said prayers, and sang hymns as they went down with the ship.
==The men==
The four men were relatively new chaplains, who all held the [[Military rank|rank]] of [[First lieutenant|lieutenant]]. They included [[Methodism|Methodist]] minister the Reverend [[George L. Fox]], [[Rabbi]] [[Alexander D. Goode]], [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] [[Priesthood (Catholic Church)|priest]] the Reverend [[John P. Washington]], and [[Reformed Church in America]] minister the Reverend [[Clark V. Poling]]. Their backgrounds, personalities, and faiths were different, although Goode, Poling and Washington had all served as leaders in the [[Boy Scouts of America]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Larson |first=Keith |url=http://www.sossi.org/scouters/chaplains.htm |title=The Immortal Chaplains |work=Scouts on Stamps Society International |accessdate=2009-02-03}}</ref> They met at the Army Chaplains School at Harvard University, where they prepared for assignments in the European theater, sailing on board USAT ''Dorchester'' to report to their new assignments.


The impact of the chaplains' story was deep, with many memorials and extensive coverage in the media. Each of the four chaplains was posthumously awarded the [[Distinguished Service Cross (United States)|Distinguished Service Cross]] and the [[Purple Heart]].<ref name="S4C">{{cite web |url=http://www.fourchaplains.org/story.html |title=The Saga of the Four Chaplains |access-date=February 5, 2008 | publisher = The Four Chaplains Memorial Foundation |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080207070224/http://www.fourchaplains.org/story.html |archive-date=February 7, 2008 }}</ref> The chaplains were nominated for the [[Medal of Honor]], but were ineligible as they had not engaged in combat with the enemy. Instead, Congress created a medal for them, with the same weight and importance as the Medal of Honor.<ref name="S4C" />
===George L. Fox===
{{main|George L. Fox}}


==The chaplains==
George L. Fox was born March 15, 1900 in [[Lewistown, Pennsylvania|Lewistown]], [[Pennsylvania]], the eldest of 8 children. When he was 17, he left school and lied about his age in order to join the Army to serve in [[World War I]]. He joined the ambulance corps in 1917, assigned to [[Camp Newton D. Baker]] in Texas. On December 3, 1917, George embarked from [[Camp Merritt, New Jersey|Camp Merritt]], [[New Jersey]], and boarded the [[USS Huron (ID-1408)| USS Huron]] en route to France. As a medical corps assistant, he was highly decorated for bravery and was awarded the [[Silver Star]], [[Purple Heart]] and the French [[Croix de Guerre]]. Upon his discharge, he returned home to Altoona, where he completed High School. He entered [[Moody Institute]] in Illinois in 1923. He and Isadore G. Hurlbut of Vermont were married in 1923, when he began his religious career as an itinerant preacher in the Methodist faith. He later graduated from [[Illinois Wesleyan University]] in [[Bloomington, Illinois|Bloomington]], served as a student pupil in [[Rye, New Hampshire]], and then studied at the [[Boston University School of Theology]], where he was ordained a Methodist minister on June 10, 1934. He served parishes in [[Union Village]] and [[Gilman, Vermont]], and was appointed state chaplain and historian for the [[American Legion]] in Vermont.
The relatively new chaplains all held the [[Military rank|rank]] of [[first lieutenant]]. They included [[Methodism|Methodist]] minister the Reverend [[George L. Fox (chaplain)|George L. Fox]], [[Reform Judaism|Reform]] [[Rabbi]] [[Alexander D. Goode]] (PhD), [[Catholic priest]] [[John P. Washington|Father John P. Washington]], and [[Reformed Church in America]] minister the Reverend [[Clark V. Poling]]. Their backgrounds, personalities, and denominations were different, although Goode, Poling and Washington had all served as leaders in the [[Boy Scouts of America]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Larson |first=Keith |url= http://www.sossi.org/scouters/chaplains.htm |title=The Immortal Chaplains |work=Scouts on Stamps Society International |access-date=February 3, 2009}}</ref> They met at the Army Chaplains School at [[Harvard University]], where they prepared for assignments in the European theater, sailing on board ''Dorchester'' to report to their new assignments.


===George Lansing Fox===
In 1942, Fox volunteered to serve as an Army Chaplain, accepting his appointment July 24, 1942. He began active duty August 8, 1942, the same day his son Wyatt enlisted in the Marine Corps. After Army Chaplains school at Harvard, he reported to the 411th Coast Artillery Battalion at [[Camp Davis]]. He was then united with Chaplains Goode, Poling and Washington at [[Camp Myles Standish]] in [[Taunton, Massachusetts]], where they prepared to depart for Europe on board the USAT ''Dorchester''.<ref>[http://www.fourchaplains.org/fox.html Fox bio page, FourChaplains.org.]</ref>
{{main|George L. Fox (chaplain)}}
George L. Fox was born March 15, 1900, in [[Lewistown, Pennsylvania|Lewistown]], [[Pennsylvania]], the eldest of eight children. When he was 17, he left school and lied about his age in order to join the Army to serve in [[World War I]]. He joined the ambulance corps in 1917, assigned to [[Camp Newton D. Baker]] in Texas. On December 3, 1917, George embarked from [[Camp Merritt, New Jersey|Camp Merritt]], [[New Jersey]], and boarded the [[USS Huron (ID-1408)|USS ''Huron'']] en route to France. As a medical corps assistant, he was highly decorated for bravery and was awarded the [[Silver Star]], [[Purple Heart]] and the French [[Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (France)|Croix de Guerre]].<ref name="foxbio">{{cite web |url=http://www.fourchaplains.org/fox.html |title=Fox bio page | publisher = The Four Chaplains Memorial Foundation |access-date=January 19, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080304092914/http://www.fourchaplains.org/fox.html |archive-date=March 4, 2008 }}</ref>


Upon his discharge, he returned home to [[Altoona, Pennsylvania|Altoona]], where he completed high school. He entered [[Moody Bible Institute]] in Illinois in 1923. He and Isadora G. Hurlbut of Vermont were married in 1923, when he began his religious career as an itinerant preacher in the Methodist faith. He later graduated from [[Illinois Wesleyan University]] in [[Bloomington, Illinois|Bloomington]], served as a student pupil in [[Rye, New Hampshire]], and then studied at the [[Boston University School of Theology]], where he was ordained a Methodist minister on June 10, 1934. He served parishes in [[Thetford, Vermont|Thetford]], [[Union Village, Vermont|Union Village]], and [[Gilman, Vermont|Gilman]], Vermont, and was appointed state chaplain and historian for the [[American Legion]] in Vermont.<ref name="foxbio"/>
===Alexander D. Goode===

In 1942, Fox volunteered to serve as an Army chaplain, accepting his appointment July 24, 1942. He began active duty on August 8, 1942, the same day his son Wyatt enlisted in the Marine Corps. After Army Chaplains School at Harvard, he reported to the 411th Coast Artillery Battalion at [[Camp Davis]]. He was then reunited with Chaplains Goode, Poling and Washington at [[Camp Myles Standish]] in [[Taunton, Massachusetts]], where they prepared to depart for Europe on board the ''Dorchester''.<ref name="foxbio"/>

===Alexander David Goode===
{{main|Alexander D. Goode}}
{{main|Alexander D. Goode}}


Rabbi Alexander D. Goode was born in Brooklyn, New York on May 10, 1911, the son of Rabbi Hyman Goodekowitz. He was raised in Washington, D.C., attending Eastern High School, eventually deciding to follow his father's footsteps by studying for the rabbinate himself, at [[Hebrew Union College]] (HUC), where he graduated with a B.H. degree in 1937. He later received his Ph.D. from [[Johns Hopkins University]] in 1940. While studying for the rabbinate at HUC, he worked at the [[Washington Hebrew Congregation]] during summer breaks.<ref name="hs">Chaplain Alexander Goode (1911-1943): Gave His Life for the Highest Duty, Student and Teacher Resources, Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington, 2007.</ref>
[[Reform Judaism|Reform]] [[Rabbi]] Alexander D. Goode (PhD) was born in [[Brooklyn|Brooklyn, New York]], on May 10, 1911, the son of Rabbi Hyman Goodekowitz. He was raised in Washington, D.C., attending [[Eastern High School (Washington, D.C.)|Eastern High School]], eventually deciding to follow his father's footsteps by studying for the rabbinate at [[Hebrew Union College]] (HUC), where he graduated with a B.H. degree in 1937. He later received his PhD from [[Johns Hopkins University]] in 1940. While studying for the rabbinate at HUC, he worked at the [[Washington Hebrew Congregation]] during summer breaks.<ref name="hs">{{cite book| title = Chaplain Alexander Goode (1911–1943): Gave His Life for the Highest Duty | work = Student and Teacher Resources | publisher = Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington | year = 2007}}</ref>


He originally applied to become a Navy chaplain in January 1941, but was not accepted. After [[Pearl Harbor]] was attacked in 1941, he applied to the Army, receiving his appointment as a chaplain on July 21, 1942. Chaplain Goode went on active duty on August 9, 1942 and he was selected for the Chaplains School at Harvard. He had courses in map reading, first aid, law, and chemical warfare. Chaplain Goode was then assigned to the 333rd Airbase Squadron in Goldsboro, North Carolina. In October 1942, he was transferred to Camp Myles Standish in Taunton, Massachusetts and reunited with Chaplains Fox, Poling and Washington, who were classmates at Harvard.<ref>[http://www.fourchaplains.org/goode.html Goode bio page, FourChaplains.org.]</ref>
He originally applied to become a Navy chaplain in January 1941, but was not accepted. After the [[attack on Pearl Harbor]] in 1941, he applied to the Army, receiving his appointment as a chaplain on July 21, 1942. Chaplain Goode went on active duty on August 9, 1942, and was selected for the Chaplains School at Harvard. Chaplain Goode was then assigned to the [[333rd Fighter Squadron]] in Goldsboro, North Carolina. In October 1942, he was transferred to Camp Myles Standish in Taunton, Massachusetts, and reunited with Chaplains Fox, Poling and Washington, who had been among his classmates at Harvard.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fourchaplains.org/goode.html |title=Goode bio page | publisher = The Four Chaplains Memorial Foundation |access-date= January 19, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120729105541/http://www.fourchaplains.org/goode.html |archive-date= July 29, 2012 }}</ref>


===Clark V. Poling===
===Clark Vandersall Poling===
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{{main|Clark V. Poling}}
Clark V. Poling was born August 7, 1910 in Columbus, Ohio, the son of Evangelical Minister Dan Poling, who was rebaptized in 1936 as a Baptist minister. Clark Poling studied at [[Yale Divinity School|Yale University's Divinity School]] in New Haven, Connecticut and graduated with his B.D. degree in 1936. He was ordained in the Reformed Church in America, and served first in the First Church of Christ, New London, Connecticut, and then as Pastor of the First Reformed Church in Schenectady, New York. He married Betty Jung.
Clark V. Poling was born August 7, 1910, in [[Columbus, Ohio]], the son of evangelical minister [[Daniel A. Poling]], who was rebaptized in 1936 as a Baptist minister. Clark Poling studied at [[Yale Divinity School|Yale University's Divinity School]] in New Haven, Connecticut and graduated with his B.D. degree in 1936. He was ordained in the [[Reformed Church in America]], and served first in the First Church of Christ, New London, Connecticut, and then as pastor of the [[First Reformed Church of Schenectady|First Reformed Church]], in Schenectady, New York. He married Betty Jung.


With the outbreak of World War II, Poling decided to enter the Army, wanting to face the same danger as others. His father, who had served as a World War I chaplain, told him chaplains risk and give their lives, too -- and with that knowledge, he applied to serve as an Army Chaplain, accepting an appointment on June 10, 1942 as a chaplain with the 131st Quartermaster Truck Regiment, reporting to Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on June 25. Later he reported to Army Chaplains School at Harvard where he would meet Chaplains Fox, Goode, and Washington.<ref>[http://www.fourchaplains.org/poling.html Poling bio page, FourChaplains.org.]</ref>
With the outbreak of World War II, Poling decided to enter the Army, wanting to face the same danger as others. His father, who had served as a World War I chaplain, told him chaplains risk and give their lives, too—and with that knowledge, he applied to serve as an Army chaplain, accepting an appointment on June 10, 1942, as a chaplain with the 131st Quartermaster Truck Regiment, reporting to Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on June 25. Later he reported to Army Chaplains School at Harvard, where he met Chaplains Fox, Goode, and Washington.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fourchaplains.org/poling.html |title=Poling bio page |publisher=Four Chaplains.org |access-date= January 19, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130201072418/http://www.fourchaplains.org/poling.html |archive-date=February 1, 2013}}</ref> Clark V. Poling's father, [[Daniel A. Poling]] was pastor of [[Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia]] when the ''Dorchester'' was sunk. The church had been planning a memorial for its well-known pastor [[Russell Conwell]] but decided to put all efforts towards creating the Chapel of the Four Chaplains in the basement of the church instead.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Phillips|first1=Tamra|title=Faith Walks and Talks: The 150-Year History of Grace Baptist--The Church That Founded Temple University|date=2022|publisher=Decentagen Publishing|location=Blue Bell}}</ref>


===John P. Washington===
===John Patrick Washington===
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{{main|John P. Washington}}
John P. Washington was born in Newark, New Jersey on July 18, 1908. He studied at Seton Hall in South Orange, New Jersey to complete his high school and college courses in preparation for the Catholic priesthood. He graduated in 1931 with an A.B. degree, entering Immaculate Conception Seminary in Darlington, New Jersey, where he received his minor orders on May 26, 1933. He served as a subdeacon at all the solemn masses, and later became a deacon on December 25, 1934. He was elected prefect of his class and was ordained a priest on June 15, 1935.
John P. Washington was born in [[Newark, New Jersey]], on July 18, 1908. He studied at [[Seton Hall]], in [[South Orange, New Jersey]], to complete his high school and college courses in preparation for the Catholic priesthood. He graduated in 1931 with an [[Bachelor's degree|A.B.]], entering Immaculate Conception Seminary in Darlington, New Jersey, where he received his [[minor orders]] on May 26, 1933. He served as a subdeacon at all the [[Solemn Mass]]es and later became a [[Deacon in the Catholic Church|deacon]] on December 25, 1934. He was elected prefect of his class and was ordained a priest on June 15, 1935.


Father Washington's first parish was at St. Genevieve's in Elizabeth, New Jersey, later serving at St. Venantius for a year. In 1938, he was assigned to St. Stephen's in Kearny, New Jersey. Shortly after the Pearl Harbor attack of December 7, 1941, he received his appointment as a chaplain in the United States Army, reporting for active duty May 9, 1942. He was named Chief of the Chaplains Reserve Pool, in Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, and in June 1942, he was assigned to the 76th Infantry Division in Ft. George Meade, Maryland. In November 1942, he reported to Camp Myles Standish in Taunton, Massachusetts and met Chaplains Fox, Goode and Poling at Chaplains School at Harvard.<ref>[http://www.fourchaplains.org/washington.html Washington bio page, FourChaplains.org.]</ref>
Father Washington's first parish was at St. Genevieve's, in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He later served at St. Venantius for a year. In 1938, he was assigned to St. Stephen's in [[Kearny, New Jersey]]. Shortly after the Pearl Harbor attack of December 7, 1941, he received his appointment as a chaplain in the United States Army, reporting for active duty on May 9, 1942. He was named chief of the Chaplains' Reserve Pool, in Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, and in June 1942, he was assigned to the 76th Infantry Division in Ft. George Meade, Maryland. In November 1942, he reported to Camp Myles Standish in Taunton, Massachusetts, and met Chaplains Fox, Goode and Poling at Chaplains School at Harvard.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fourchaplains.org/washington.html |title=Washington bio page | publisher = The Four Chaplains Memorial Foundation |access-date=January 19, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130201072433/http://www.fourchaplains.org/washington.html |archive-date=February 1, 2013 }}</ref>


==The ship==
==The ship and its sinking==
[[File:USAT Dorchester.jpg|thumb|left|USAT Dorchester]]
[[File:USAT Dorchester.jpg|thumb|left|''Dorchester'']]
{{main|USAT Dorchester}}
{{main|SS Dorchester|l1=SS ''Dorchester''}}
The Dorchester was a 5,649 ton [[Ocean liner|civilian cruise ship]], 368 feet long with a 52-foot beam and a single funnel, originally built in 1926 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, for the Merchants and Miners Line, operating ships from Baltimore to Florida, carrying both freight and passengers.<ref name="balt">[http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1997-01-05/features/1997005192_1_dorchester-four-chaplains-vessel Baltimore Sun article], retrieved February 5, 2011.]</ref> It was the third of four liners being built for the Line.
The ''Dorchester'' had been a 5,649 ton civilian [[Ocean liner|liner]], 368 feet long with a 52-foot beam and a single [[Funnel (ship)|funnel]], originally built in 1926 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, for the Merchants and Miners Line, operating ships from Baltimore to Florida, carrying both freight and passengers.<ref name="balt">{{cite web|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/1997/01/05/the-ship-sank-but-heroism-survived-faith-four-chaplains-gave-away-their-life-preservers-and-stood-together-praying-as-the-dorchester-went-down/|title=The ship sank, but heroism survived Faith: Four chaplains gave away their life preservers and stood together, praying, as the Dorchester went down.|work=tribunedigital-baltimoresun|date=January 5, 1997 }}</ref> It was the third of four liners being built for the Line.


The ship was converted for military service in World War II as a [[Troopship|troop transport]], and renamed United States Army Transport (USAT) Dorchester.<ref name="saga">[http://www.fourchaplains.org/story.html Saga page, FourChaplains.org.], Accessed February 4, 2011.]</ref> The conversion was done in New York by the Atlantic, Gulf, and West Indies (AGWI) SS Company, and included additional lifeboats and liferafts; guns (a 3 inch 50 caliber gun forward, and a 4 inch 50 caliber gun aft, in addition to four 20mm guns); and changes to the large windows in the pilot house so that they would be reduced to slits to afford more protection.<ref name="dorchester">[http://www.greatships.net/dorchester.html GreatShips.com], retrieved February 6, 2011</ref> A liner designed for 314 passengers and 90 crew would now be able to carry slightly more than 900 passengers and crew.<ref name="dorchester"/>
The ship was converted for military service in World War II as a [[War Shipping Administration]] [[Troopship|troop transport]] operated by [[Atlantic, Gulf & West Indies Steamship Lines]] (Agwilines) allocated to [[United States Army]] requirements.<ref name="MARADVSC">{{cite web | url= http://www.marad.dot.gov/sh/ShipHistory/Detail/7638 |title= Dorchester |author=Maritime Administration |work=Ship History Database Vessel Status Card |publisher= U.S. Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration |access-date=April 18, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Grover |first=David |title=U.S. Army Ships and Watercraft of World War II |publisher=[[Naval Institute Press]] |year=1987 |pages=17, 20, 61 |isbn=0-87021-766-6 |lccn=87015514}}</ref> The conversion was done in New York by the Atlantic, Gulf, and West Indies (AGWI) SS Company, and included additional lifeboats and liferafts; guns (a 3-inch gun forward, a 4-inch gun aft, and four 20&nbsp;mm guns); and changes to the large windows in the pilot house so that they would be reduced to slits to afford more protection.<ref name="dorchester">{{cite web | url= http://www.greatships.net/dorchester.html |work = GreatShips.com |title= Dorchester | access-date = February 6, 2011}}</ref>


Designed for 314 civilian passengers and 90 crew, she was able to carry slightly more than 900 military passengers and crew.<ref name="MARADVSC" />
==The story==
The ''Dorchester'' left New York on January 23, 1943, en route to Greenland, carrying the four chaplains and approximately 900 others, as part of a convoy of three ships (SG-19 convoy). Most of the military personnel were not told the ship's ultimate destination. The convoy was escorted by Coast Guard Cutters ''Tampa'', ''Escanaba'', and ''Comanche''.<ref name="avc">[http://www.americanveteranscenter.org/radio/documentaries/no-greater-love-the-four-chaplains-and-the-sinking-of-the-dorchester AmericanVeteransCenter.org]</ref>
[[Image:Escanaba-Dorchester rescue.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Coast Guard Cutter ''Escanaba'' (WPG-77) rescues ''Dorchester'' survivors.]]


''Dorchester'' left New York on January 23, 1943, en route to Greenland, carrying the four chaplains and approximately 900 others, as part of a convoy of three ships (SG-19 convoy). Most of the military personnel were not told the ship's ultimate destination. The convoy was escorted by Coast Guard Cutters ''Tampa'', ''Escanaba'', and ''Comanche''.<ref name="avc">{{cite web |url= http://www.americanveteranscenter.org/radio/documentaries/no-greater-love-the-four-chaplains-and-the-sinking-of-the-dorchester |title=AmericanVeteransCenter.org |publisher=AmericanVeteransCenter.org |date=January 23, 1943 |access-date=January 19, 2013}}</ref>
The ship's captain, Hans J. Danielsen, had been alerted that Coast Guard sonar had detected a submarine. Because German U-boats were monitoring sea lanes and had attacked and sunk ships earlier during the war, Captain Danielsen had the ship's crew on a state of high alert even before he received that information, ordering the men to sleep in their clothing and keep their life jackets on. "Many soldiers sleeping deep in the ship's hold disregarded the order because of the engine's heat. Others ignored it because the life jackets were uncomfortable."<ref name="saga"/>
[[File:Escanaba-Dorchester rescue.jpg|thumb|Coast Guard Cutter {{USCGC|Escanaba|WPG-77|6}} rescues ''Dorchester'' survivors.]]


The ship's captain, Hans J. Danielsen, had been alerted that Coast Guard sonar had detected a submarine. Because German U-boats were monitoring sea lanes and had attacked and sunk ships earlier during the war, Captain Danielsen had the ship's crew on a state of high alert even before he received that information, ordering the men to sleep in their clothing and keep their life jackets on. "Many soldiers sleeping deep in the ship's hold disregarded the order because of the engine's heat. Others ignored it because the life jackets were uncomfortable."<ref name="The Saga of the Four Chaplains">{{cite web |url=http://www.fourchaplains.org/story.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080207070224/http://www.fourchaplains.org/story.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 7, 2008 | title = The Saga of the Four Chaplains | publisher = The Four Chaplains Memorial Foundation |access-date= February 7, 2008 }}</ref>
During the early morning hours of February 3, 1943, at 12:55 a.m., the vessel was torpedoed by the German submarine [[U-boat|''U-223'']] off [[Newfoundland and Labrador|Newfoundland]] in the North Atlantic.<ref name="The Saga of the Four Chaplains">The Four Chaplains Memorial Foundation. [http://www.fourchaplains.org/story.html The Saga of the Four Chaplains]. Accessed 2010.02.03.</ref>


During the early morning hours of February 3, 1943, at 12:55&nbsp;am, the vessel was torpedoed by the {{GS|U-223}} off [[Newfoundland and Labrador|Newfoundland]] in the North Atlantic.<ref name="The Saga of the Four Chaplains" />
The torpedo knocked out the ''Dorchester'''s electrical system, leaving the ship dark. Panic set in among the men on board, many of them trapped below decks. The chaplains sought to calm the men and organize an orderly evacuation of the ship, and helped guide wounded men to safety. As life jackets were passed out to the men, the supply ran out before each man had one. The chaplains removed their own life jackets and gave them to others. They helped as many men as they could into lifeboats, and then linked arms and, saying prayers and singing hymns, went down with the ship.<ref name="The Saga of the Four Chaplains"/>


The torpedo knocked out the ''Dorchester''{{'}}s electrical system, leaving the ship dark. Panic set in among the men on board, many of them trapped below decks. The chaplains sought to calm the men and organize an orderly evacuation of the ship, and helped guide wounded men to safety. As life jackets were passed out to the men, the supply ran out before each man had one. The chaplains removed their own life jackets and gave them to others. They helped as many men as they could into lifeboats, and then linked arms and, saying prayers and singing hymns, went down with the ship.<ref name="The Saga of the Four Chaplains"/>
{{quote|As I swam away from the ship, I looked back. The flares had lighted everything. The [[Bow (ship)|bow]] came up high and she slid under. The last thing I saw, the Four Chaplains were up there praying for the safety of the men. They had done everything they could. I did not see them again. They themselves did not have a chance without their life jackets.|Grady Clark, survivor<ref name="sculpture">Kvaran, Einar Einarsson, ''An Annotated Inventory of Outdoor Sculpture of Washtenaw County'', unpublished document, 1989</ref>}}


{{quote|As I swam away from the ship, I looked back. The flares had lighted everything. The [[Bow (ship)|bow]] came up high and she slid under. The last thing I saw, the Four Chaplains were up there praying for the safety of the men. They had done everything they could. I did not see them again. They themselves did not have a chance without their life jackets.|Grady Clark, survivor<ref name="sculpture">{{cite book | last = Kvaran | first = Einar Einarsson |title= An Annotated Inventory of Outdoor Sculpture of Washtenaw County |work = unpublished document | year= 1989}}</ref>}}
According to some reports, survivors could hear different languages mixed in the prayers of the chaplains, including Hebrew Jewish prayers and Latin Catholic prayers.<ref name="up">[http://www.unionpresbyterian.com/Military/NoGreaterLove.dsp UnionPresbyterian.com], retrieved February 5, 2011.</ref>


In all, 230 of the 904 men aboard the ship were rescued. Life jackets offered little protection from [[hypothermia]], which killed most men in the water. The water temperature was {{convert|34|°F|°C}} and the air temperature was {{convert|36|°F|°C}}. By the time additional rescue ships arrived, "...hundreds of dead bodies were seen floating on the water, kept up by their life jackets."<ref>{{cite book| title=History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume I The Battle of the Atlantic 1939-1943 |author=Morison, Samuel Eliot |publisher=Little, Brown and Company |year=1975}}</ref>
According to some reports, survivors could hear different languages mixed in the prayers of the chaplains, including Jewish prayers in Hebrew and Catholic prayers in Latin. Only 230 of the 904 men aboard the ship were rescued. Life jackets offered little protection from [[hypothermia]], which killed most men in the water. The water temperature was {{convert|34|°F|°C}} and the air temperature was {{convert|36|°F|°C}}. By the time additional rescue ships arrived, "hundreds of dead bodies were seen floating on the water, kept up by their life jackets."<ref>{{cite book| title= History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume I The Battle of the Atlantic 1939–1943 |author=Morison, Samuel Eliot |publisher=Little, Brown and Company |year=1975}}</ref>


==Cultural impact==
===In film===
===In film===
* The 60-minute TV documentary ''The Four Chaplains: Sacrifice at Sea'' was produced in 2004.<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0428551/ IMDB.com]</ref>
* The 60-minute TV documentary ''The Four Chaplains: Sacrifice at Sea'' was produced in 2004.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0428551 |title=The Four Chaplains: Sacrifice at Sea |type = TV Movie |author=James Moll |date=November 10, 2004|work= IMDb | publisher= Production Companies, Allentown Productions, Faith & Values Media, Lancaster Gate|author-link=James Moll }}</ref>
* A feature film tentatively titled ''Lifeboat 13'' was reportedly being considered for production, as of 2008.<ref>[http://www.monstersandcritics.com/movies/news/article_1401039.php/Michel_Shane_and_Anthony_Romano_working_on_Lifeboat_13 MonstersAndCritics.com] Accessed February 4, 2011.</ref><ref>[http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117984334.html?categoryid=1238&cs=1 ''Variety'' magazine.]</ref>
* In 2008 development of a movie based on the chaplains' story, titled ''Lifeboat 13'', was announced.<ref>{{cite web | work = MonstersAndCritics.com | title = Michel Shane and Anthony Romano working on Lifeboat 13 | url = http://www.monstersandcritics.com/movies/news/article_1401039.php/Michel_Shane_and_Anthony_Romano_working_on_Lifeboat_13 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121012042046/http://www.monstersandcritics.com/movies/news/article_1401039.php/Michel_Shane_and_Anthony_Romano_working_on_Lifeboat_13 | url-status = dead | archive-date = October 12, 2012 |access-date= October 12, 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |author-link=Dave McNary |last=McNary |first=Dave |url= https://variety.com/2008/film/markets-festivals/shane-romano-float-lifeboat-film-1117984334/ |title=Shane, Romano float 'Lifeboat' film: Duo acquire WWII story from Justiz, Sikes |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date= April 20, 2008 |access-date=January 19, 2013}}</ref> As of 2022, no further information had been released about the project.


===In print===
===In print===
* The book "Sea of Glory:The Magnificent Story of the Four Chaplains," written by Francis Beauchesne Thornton, was published by Prentice Hall in 1955.
* {{cite book | title = Sea of Glory: The Magnificent Story of the Four Chaplains | author = Francis Beauchesne Thornton | publisher= Prentice Hall | year = 1953 | lccn = 52010662 | oclc= 1349281}}
* The book "No Greater Glory: The Four Immortal Chaplains and the Sinking of the Dorchester in World War II," written by Dan Kurzman, was published by Random House in 2004.<ref>[http://www.amazon.com/No-Greater-Glory-Chaplains-Dorchester/dp/0375508775 Amazon.com]</ref>
* {{cite book | title = No Greater Glory: The Four Immortal Chaplains and the Sinking of the Dorchester in World War II | url = https://archive.org/details/nogreatergloryfo00kurz | url-access = registration | author = Dan Kurzman | publisher= Random House | year = 2004 | isbn = 978-0375508776 | oclc= 53019525}}
* "Sea of Glory: Based on the True WW II Story of the Four Chaplains and the U.S.A.T. Dorchester," written by Ken Wales and David Poling, is a 2006 book published by B&H Publishing Group. As the title indicates, it is "based on" the story, not an actual factual account.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=n4l-hiLwVMcC&dq=four+chaplains+short+story&source=gbs_navlinks_s Books.google.com]</ref>
* {{cite book | title = Sea of Glory: Based on the True WW II Story of the Four Chaplains and the U.S.A.T. Dorchester | year = 2006 | publisher= B&H Publishing Group | quote = As the title indicates, it is 'based on' the story, not an actual factual account. | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=n4l-hiLwVMcC&q=four+chaplains+short+story | isbn=978-0805443806 |last1=Wales |first1=Ken |last2=Poling |first2=David |via=Google Books}}
* The story of the Four Chaplains was also printed in the form of a comic book, "Chaplains at War," "The Living Bible #3," 1946.<ref>[http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_iL6ciL0GqvY/THvdPb8XPqI/AAAAAAAATY8/mbdFJa3cQTQ/s1600/BBFourChaplans001.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.comicbookwar.com/2010/08/warfront-no-27-october-1955.html&usg=__6J66-Nn6FXu8hu9rVM0I-ewLj9U=&h=1233&w=825&sz=384&hl=en&start=99&zoom=1&tbnid=Jn1QJJbSgX9g9M:&tbnh=139&tbnw=92&ei=OflNTeToC43qgQfKtLXaDw&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfour%2Bchaplains%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26biw%3D1259%26bih%3D590%26tbs%3Disch:10%2C2314&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=1049&vpy=220&dur=312&hovh=275&hovw=184&tx=158&ty=167&oei=KvlNTZSSDYzVgAem-pH2Dw&esq=6&page=6&ndsp=22&ved=1t:429,r:14,s:99&biw=1259&bih=590 Image of comic book story of the Four Chaplains.], retrieved February 5, 2011.</ref><ref>[http://www.esquirecomics.com/resources/collection_images/Chaplainsatwar.jpg Cover Image, comic book version of story], retrieved February 5, 2011.</ref>
* {{cite news | title = Chaplains at War | work = The Living Bible | issue = 3 | date = March 1946 | type = comic |url= https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_iL6ciL0GqvY/THvdPb8XPqI/AAAAAAAATY8/mbdFJa3cQTQ/s1600/BBFourChaplans001.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.comicbookwar.com/2010/08/warfront-no-27-october-1955.html&usg=__6J66-Nn6FXu8hu9rVM0I-ewLj9U=&h=1233&w=825&sz=384&hl=en&start=99&zoom=1&tbnid=Jn1QJJbSgX9g9M:&tbnh=139&tbnw=92&ei=OflNTeToC43qgQfKtLXaDw&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfour%2Bchaplains%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26biw%3D1259%26bih%3D590%26tbs%3Disch:10%2C2314&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=1049&vpy=220&dur=312&hovh=275&hovw=184&tx=158&ty=167&oei=KvlNTZSSDYzVgAem-pH2Dw&esq=6&page=6&ndsp=22&ved=1t:429,r:14,s:99&biw=1259&bih=590 }} <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.esquirecomics.com/resources/collection_images/Chaplainsatwar.jpg |title= Cover Image, comic book version of story| access-date =February 5, 2011}}</ref>
* {{cite book | title = Four Men of God | year = 1949 | work = Living the Years | author = Edgar A. Guest | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=j5YIAQAAIAAJ&q=Four+Men+of+God | publisher = Reilly & Lee Company}}
* {{cite book | title = When Time Stood Still: The S.S. Dorchester's Last Heroic Night | author = Chester Szymczak | publisher= Dorrance & Company, Inc. | year = 1956 | lccn = 56-11555}}
* {{cite book | title = The Men The Ship: The Famous Four Chaplains Story And The Sinking Of The Dorchester | author = Chester J. Szymczak | publisher= Great Lakes Publishing Co., Inc. | year = 1976 | lccn = 76-11392}}


===In music===
===In music===
* A musical composition entitled "The Light Eternal," written by [[James Swearingen]] in 1992, tells the story of the Four Chaplains through music.<ref>[http://www.jamesswearingen.com/2008.html "Recognition received from the Four Chaplains Memorial Foundation for having composed The Light Eternal"]</ref>
* A composition entitled "The Light Eternal", written by [[James Swearingen]] in 1992, tells the story of the Four Chaplains through music.<ref>{{cite web|author=Lee Salisbury|url= http://www.jamesswearingen.com/2008.html |title=Recognition received from the Four Chaplains Memorial Foundation for having composed The Light Eternal |publisher=Jamesswearingen.com |access-date=January 19, 2013}}</ref>
* "The Ballad of the Four Chaplains" written and performed by Dead Men's Hollow<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://deadmenshollow.com |title = InMotion Hosting}}</ref>


===In art===
===In art===
In addition to the stained glass windows recalling the chaplains and their heroism, paintings include
In addition to the stained glass windows recalling the chaplains and their heroism, paintings include:
* Four Chaplains, 1943, by Alton Tobey<ref>[http://www.altontobey.com/social.html Alton Tobey website], retrieved February 5, 2011.</ref>
* ''Four Chaplains'', 1943, by Alton Tobey<ref>{{cite web| url = https://magazine.uc.edu/issues/0509/rabbi.html |title=UC alumnus Rabbi Goode a beloved 'immortal chaplain' |magazine=UC Magazine |access-date= November 5, 2019}}</ref>
* "A Moment of Peace," Ft. Jackson, South Carolina, painted by Steven Carter.<ref>[http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20110130_12_A24_CUTLIN8940 Tulsaworld article], retrieved February 5, 2011.</ref>
* ''A Moment of Peace'', Ft. Jackson, South Carolina, painted by Steven Carter.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20110130_12_A24_CUTLIN8940 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120403110434/http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20110130_12_A24_CUTLIN8940 | url-status = dead | archive-date = April 3, 2012 | work =Tulsaworld |access-date= February 5, 2011 |author = Manny Gamallo | date = January 30, 2011 |title = American Legion to Honor Heroism of the Four Chaplains }}</ref>
* The Four Chaplains, Chapel of Four Chaplains.<ref>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/franmoff/5034480023/in/set-72157624931805603/ Flikr.com], retrieved February 5, 2011.</ref>
* ''The Four Chaplains'', Chapel of Four Chaplains.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.flickr.com/photos/franmoff/5034480023 |title = Painting depicting "The Four Chaplains" during the sinking of the SS Dorchester | publisher = Flickr.com |access-date= February 5, 2011|date = September 27, 2010}}</ref>
* "The Four Chaplains," by Art Seidan (the four, pictured at the rail of the ship).<ref>[http://www.homeofheroes.com/brotherhood/chaplains2.html HomeOfHeroes.com], retrieved February 5, 2011.</ref>
* ''The Four Chaplains'', by Art Seidan (the four, pictured at the rail of the ship).<ref>{{cite web| url = https://homeofheroes.com/heroes-stories/the-brotherhood-of-soldiers-at-war/the-four-chaplains |author = C. Douglas Sterner |work = HomeOfHeroes.com |title = Chaplains |access-date= February 5, 2011}}</ref>
* Four chaplains mural, by artist Connie Burns Watkins, commissioned by the Rotary Club of New York, Pennsylvania.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=rzQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT47&lpg=PT47&dq=four+chaplain+paintings&source=bl&ots=gT4SZ0ECtN&sig=-Y_LtbYVEEBm15SydE7mLRAO4OE&hl=en&ei=PHBNTY_rNdDqgQeC25gx&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q&f=false The Rotarian], retrieved February 5, 2011.</ref>
* ''Four Chaplains Mural'', by artist Connie Burns Watkins, commissioned by the Rotary Club of York, Pennsylvania.<ref>{{cite book| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=rzQEAAAAMBAJ&q=four+chaplain+paintings&pg=PT47 |title= Mural honors Rotarian's selfless heroism | work = The Rotarian | page =48 |access-date= February 5, 2011 | date = May 1999 | volume = 174 | issue = 5 | issn = 0035-838X}}</ref>
* Four Chaplains mural, painted by Dean Fausett, at entrance to Joseph "Ziggy" Kahn Gymnasium, [[Jewish Community Center]] Irene Kaufman Building, Squirrel Hill, Pennsylvania.<ref>[http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08034/854040-85.stm Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article], retrieved February 5, 2011.</ref>
* ''Four Chaplains Mural'', painted by Dean Fausett, at entrance to Joseph "Ziggy" Kahn Gymnasium, [[Jewish Community Center]] Irene Kaufman Building, Squirrel Hill, Pennsylvania.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08034/854040-85.stm | date=February 3, 2008| author = Mark Roth |work = Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |title = 65 years ago in the North Atlantic, they perished so others could live | access-date= February 5, 2011}}</ref>
* "[[Murals of York, PA#Four Chaplains Mural|Four Chaplains mural]]", painted by Connie Burns Watkins, in York, Pennsylvania.
* ''[[Murals of York, Pennsylvania#Four Chaplains|Four Chaplains Mural]]'', painted by Connie Burns Watkins, in York, Pennsylvania.
* ''Four Chaplains Mural'', painted by Nils Hogner, at the Chapel of Four Chaplains<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fourchaplains.org/Chapel%20of%20Four%20Chaplains%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130818102051/http://fourchaplains.org/Chapel%20of%20Four%20Chaplains%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf|url-status=dead |title= The Chapel of the Four Chaplains Fact Sheet | publisher = The Four Chaplains Memorial Foundation |archive-date=August 18, 2013}}</ref>
* ''Four Chaplains Monument and Eternal Flame'', Riverview Park, Sebastian Florida<ref name="Veronews.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.veronews.com/news/sebastian/spotlight/sebastian-to-unveil-monument-honoring-wwii-s-the-four-chaplains/article_3f9fe5e4-a672-11e1-b96e-001a4bcf6878.html |title=Sebastian to unveil monument honoring WWII's "The Four Chaplains" |publisher=VeroNews: Sebastian Spotlight |website=Veronews.com |date=May 25, 2012 |access-date=October 19, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170617020758/http://www.veronews.com/news/sebastian/spotlight/sebastian-to-unveil-monument-honoring-wwii-s-the-four-chaplains/article_3f9fe5e4-a672-11e1-b96e-001a4bcf6878.html |archive-date=June 17, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>


===Other===
===Other===
* The two-hour audio documentary ''No Greater Love'' tells the story, including interviews with survivors, rescuers, and naval historians.<ref name="avc"/>
* The two-hour audio documentary ''No Greater Love'' tells the story, including interviews with survivors, rescuers, and naval historians.<ref name="avc"/>
* The 23rd degree conferred by the Ancient Accepted [[Scottish Rite]] Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, entitled "Knight of Valor" tells the story of the Four Chaplains as a lesson of personal sacrifice to aid one's fellow man.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://freemasonsfordummies.blogspot.com/2011/02/four-chaplains.html|title=Freemasons For Dummies: The Four Chaplains|date=February 3, 2011}}</ref>


==Awards==
==Remembrance==
===Awards===
On December 19, 1944, all four chaplains were posthumously awarded the [[Purple Heart]] and the [[Distinguished Service Cross (United States)|Distinguished Service Cross]].<ref name="DSC-PH">{{cite web | url = http://www.fourchaplains.org/story.html | title = Story | publisher = FourChaplains.org}}</ref>
[[File:Chaplainmedal.png|thumb|Four Chaplains' Medal]]
On December 19, 1944, all four chaplains were posthumously awarded the [[Purple Heart]] and the [[Distinguished Service Cross (United States)|Distinguished Service Cross]].<ref name="DSC-PH">{{cite web|url=http://www.fourchaplains.org/story.html |title=Story | publisher = The Four Chaplains Memorial Foundation |url-status=dead | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080207070224/http://www.fourchaplains.org/story.html | archive-date= February 7, 2008}}</ref>
{{Main|Four Chaplains' Medal}}
Additionally, members of Congress later authorized a special medal, the [[Four Chaplains' Medal]], approved by a unanimous [[act of Congress]] on July 14, 1960, through Public Law 86-656.<ref name="up">{{cite web|url=http://www.unionpresbyterian.com/Military/NoGreaterLove.dsp |title=No Greater Love |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717163313/http://www.unionpresbyterian.com/Military/NoGreaterLove.dsp |archive-date= July 17, 2011 |url-status=dead |access-date= February 3, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://uscode.house.gov/statutes/pl/86/656.pdf |title=Public Law 86-656 |website=uscode.house.gov |date=July 13, 1960}}</ref> The medals were presented posthumously to the next of kin of each of the four chaplains by [[United States Secretary of the Army|Secretary of the Army]] [[Wilber M. Brucker]] at [[Fort Myer]], Virginia, on January 18, 1961.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.foxfall.com/fmc-fcm.htm | title = Four Chaplains' Medal | work = Federal Military Medals and Decorations | publisher = Foxfall Medals | access-date = December 20, 2002 | archive-date = May 28, 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190528133937/http://www.foxfall.com/fmc-fcm.htm | url-status = dead }}</ref>


===Four Chaplains Day===
{{Main|Chaplain's Medal for Heroism}}
[[Image:Chaplainmedal.gif|thumb|left|Chaplain's Medal for Heroism]]
Congress also attempted to confer the Medal of Honor on each of the four chaplains, but the stringent requirements for that medal required heroism performed "under fire," and the bravery and ultimate sacrifice of these men did not technically qualify, since their actions took place after the torpedo attack. Therefore, members of Congress decided to authorize a special medal intended to have the same weight and importance as the Medal of Honor.<ref name="saga"/> This new award, the [[Chaplain's Medal for Heroism]], was officially established by a unanimous act of Congress on July 14, 1960, through Public law 86-656 of the 86th Congress.<ref name="up"/> The medals were presented posthumously to the next of kin of each of the Four Chaplains by Secretary of the Army Wilber M. Brucker at Ft. Myer, Virginia on January 18, 1961.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.foxfall.com/fmc-fcm.htm | title = Federal Military Medals and Decorations | publisher = Foxfall Medals}}</ref> As of 2011, it has never been awarded to any chaplain other than the four who died when the Dorchester sank.


Ceremonies and services are held each year on or around the February 3 Four Chaplains Day by numerous military and civilian groups and organizations. In 1998, February 3 of that year was established by senate resolution 169-98 as Four Chaplains Day to commemorate the 55th anniversary of the sinking of United States Army transport ''Dorchester'' and subsequent heroism of these men.<ref>{{cite journal | journal = Cong. Rec. | title = Four Chaplains Day | date = January 27, 1998 | page = S69 | url = https://www.congress.gov/crec/1998/01/27/CREC-1998-01-27-pt1-PgS69.pdf | publisher = Congress.gov}}</ref> Some state or city officials commemorate the day with official proclamations, sometimes including the order that flags fly at half-mast in memory of the fallen chaplains.<ref name="mn">{{cite news | url = http://www.jordannews.com/community/mathias-baden/four-chaplains-why-flags-are-half-staff | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090217074731/http://www.jordannews.com/community/mathias-baden/four-chaplains-why-flags-are-half-staff | url-status = dead | archive-date = February 17, 2009 | title = Four chaplains: Why the flags are at half-staff| author = Mathias Baden | date = February 3, 2009| work = JordanNews.com | access-date =February 4, 2011}}</ref> In some cases, official proclamations establish observances at other times: for example, North Dakota legislation requests that the governor issue an annual proclamation establishing the first Sunday in February as Four Chaplains Sunday.<ref>{{cite journal | url = http://www.legis.nd.gov/cencode/t01c03.pdf | title = official holiday guidelines | journal = North Dakota | access-date = February 6, 2011}}</ref>
In 2006, National Executive Committee of The American Legion, at the Legion's 88th National Convention in Salt Lake City, passed a resolution urging Congress to revisit the issue of awards, and award the Medal of Honor to Fox, Goode, Poling and Washington.<ref name="legion">[http://www.legion.org/library/6245/bravery-four-chaplains Legion.org], Accessed February 5, 2011.</ref>


[[Civitan International]], a worldwide volunteer association of service clubs, holds an interfaith [[Clergy Appreciation Week]] every year. The event honors the sacrifice of the Four Chaplains by encouraging citizens to thank the clergy that serve their communities.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.civitan.com/template.php?t=sr&id=93 |title=Clergy Appreciation Week |work=Civitan International website |access-date= May 27, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100919015559/http://civitan.com/template.php?t=sr&id=93 |archive-date=September 19, 2010 }}</ref> The First Parish Church ([[Unitarian Universalist]]) in Dorchester, Massachusetts, hosts an ecumenical Service of the Four Chaplains each January.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.firstparishdorchester.org |title=First Parish Church Dorchester |publisher=Firstparishdorchester.org |access-date=January 19, 2013}}</ref> The [[American Legion]] commemorates the day through services and programs at many posts throughout the nation.<ref name="legion">{{cite web |url= http://archive.legion.org/handle/123456789/175 |work =Proceedings of the 88th National Convention|publisher =American Legion|year=2006|pages = 150–151|title=Resolution No. 361 |access-date= February 3, 2017}}</ref>
==Remembrance==

===Four Chaplains Day===
On February 14, 2002, as part of the annual award of the Immortal Chaplains Prize for Humanity, a special reconciliation meeting took place between survivors of both the American and German sides of the sinking of the ''Dorchester''. Kurt Röser and Gerhard Buske, who had been part of the crew of the German U-boat that had torpedoed the ''Dorchester'' met with three ''Dorchester'' survivors, Ben Epstein, Walter Miller, and David Labadie, as well as Dick Swanson, who had been on board the Coast Guard Cutter ''Comanche'', escorting the ''Dorchester''{{'}}s convoy.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.immortalchaplains.org/Prize/Reconciliation/reconciliation.htm |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20020102104728/http://www.immortalchaplains.org/Prize/Reconciliation/reconciliation.htm |url-status= dead |archive-date= January 2, 2002 |title= The Move Towards Reconciliation | work = The Immortal Chaplains Foundation | access-date = February 5, 2002}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine| last = Gourevitch | first = Philip | title = Former Enemies Meet in Memory of Four Martyrs | magazine =[[The New Yorker]] | date = February 21, 2002}}</ref>
In 1988, February 3 was established by a unanimous [[act of Congress]] as an annual "Four Chaplains Day."<ref>Rees, Lloyd, [http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=258885 WorldNetDaily.com], accessed February 4, 2011.</ref> Some state or city officials commemorate the day with official proclamations, sometimes including the order that flags fly at half-mast in memory of the fallen chaplains.<ref name="mn">[http://www.jordannews.com/community/mathias-baden/four-chaplains-why-flags-are-half-staff JordanNews.com], accessed February 4, 2011.</ref> In some cases, official proclamations establish observances at other times: for example, North Dakota legislation requests that the Governor issue an annual proclamation establishing the first Sunday in February as "Four Chaplains Sunday."<ref>[http://www.legis.nd.gov/cencode/t01c03.pdf North Dakota official holiday guidelines], retrieved February 6, 2011.</ref>

On February 3, 2011, the [[Library of Congress]] [[Veterans History Project of the Library of Congress American Folklife Center|Veterans History Project]] and the [[United States Navy Memorial]] co-hosted a special program at the memorial, in Washington, D.C.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://events.washingtonexaminer.com/performer.aspx?perf_id=1834488 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722093628/http://events.washingtonexaminer.com/performer.aspx?perf_id=1834488 |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 22, 2011 | title = Schedule | work = washington examiner | date = July 22, 2011 |access-date= February 4, 2011}}</ref>


The Jewish Chaplains Monument at Arlington National Cemetery's Chaplains' Hill was dedicated on October 24, 2011. The monument honors 14 Jewish chaplains who died during their military service. The monument is a granite upright with a bronze plaque, similar to the three other monuments at the site honoring Catholic, Protestant and World War I chaplains. Rabbi Goode's name is the first listed on the plaque. The Jewish Chaplains Monument was approved by the United States Congress in May 2011, and the monument itself, designed by Debora Jackson of Long Island, New York, was reviewed and approved by the U.S. Fine Arts Commission on June 16, 2011. The dedication ceremony was held in Arlington's Memorial Amphitheater. The ceremony was attended by Ernie Heaton, who survived the ''Dorchester'' sinking, and Richard Swanson who was on the Coast Guard rescue team.<ref>{{cite web |author1=J.D. Leipold |title=Jewish Chaplains Memorial unveiled at Arlington |url=https://www.army.mil/article/67913/jewish_chaplains_memorial_unveiled_at_arlington |website=Inside The Army |publisher=army.mil |date=October 25, 2011}}</ref>
The day is also observed as a [[feast day]] on the [[Calendar of saints (Episcopal Church in the United States of America)|liturgical of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America]].<ref>[http://communio.stblogs.org/2011/02/four-chaplains-day.html Communio.stblogs.org], accessed February 4, 2011.</ref>


===U.S. postage stamp===
===U.S. postage stamp===
[[Image:Four Chaplains stamp1.png|thumb|right|Four Chaplains stamp, 1948]]
[[File:Four Chaplains stamp1.png|thumb|Four Chaplains stamp, 1948]]
[[Image:Four Chaplains stamp2.png|Four Chaplains Stamp on official [[First day of issue|first day cover]], 1948|thumb|right]]
[[File:Four Chaplains stamp2.png|Four Chaplains Stamp on official [[First day of issue|first day cover]], 1948|thumb]]
The chaplains were honored with a [[commemorative stamp]] that was issued in 1948, and was designed by Louis Schwimmer, the head of the Art Department of the New York branch of the U.S. Post Office Department (now called the [[USPS]]).<ref>[http://stampcenter.com/blog/2010/06/25/682 StampCenter.com, "A sweet tribute to Four Chaplains on a Postage Stamp," Pt III of III], retrieved February 6, 2011.</ref> This stamp is highly unusual, in that U.S. stamps were not normally issued in someone's honor until, at least at that time, at least 10 years after his or her death.<ref>[http://www.schwimmer.com/fourchaplains/ Four Chaplains Stamp]</ref>


The chaplains were honored with a [[commemorative stamp]] that was issued in 1948, and was designed by Louis Schwimmer, the head of the Art Department of the New York branch of the U.S. Post Office Department (now called the [[USPS]]).<ref name="stamp3">{{cite web | url = http://stampcenter.com/blog/2010/06/25/682/ | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120707161501/http://stampcenter.com/blog/2010/06/25/682/ | url-status = dead | archive-date = July 7, 2012 |work =The Stamp Collectors Corner |title=A sweet tribute to Four Chaplains on a Postage Stamp: Part III of III | access-date = July 7, 2012 | date = June 25, 2010}}</ref> This stamp is highly unusual, because until 2011,<ref>{{cite web |url= http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/leadership/stamp-advisory-committee.htm |title= Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee |publisher= USPS |date= September 2011 |access-date= September 29, 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110926031251/http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/leadership/stamp-advisory-committee.htm |archive-date= September 26, 2011 |url-status= dead }}</ref> U.S. stamps were not normally issued in honor of someone other than a [[president of the United States]] until at least ten years after his or her death.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.schwimmer.com/fourchaplains/|title=Four Chaplains Stamp – The story of the original first design by Louis Schwimmer }}</ref>
The stamp went through three revisions before the final design was chosen.<ref name="stamp">[http://stampcenter.com/blog/2010/06/23/a-sweet-tribute-to-four-chaplains-on-a-postage-stamp-part-ii-of-iii StampCenter.com, "A sweet tribute to Four Chaplains on a postage stamp, part II of III"], retrieved February 6, 2011.</ref> None of the names of the chaplains were included on the stamp, nor were their faiths (although the faiths had been listed on one of the earlier designs): instead, the words on the stamp were "These Immortal Chaplains...Interfaith in Action."<ref name="stamp"/> Another phrase included in an earlier design that was not part of the final stamp was "died to save men of all faiths."<ref name="stamp"/>

The stamp went through three revisions before the final design was chosen.<ref name="stamp2">{{cite web| url = http://stampcenter.com/blog/2010/06/23/a-sweet-tribute-to-four-chaplains-on-a-postage-stamp-part-ii-of-iii/ | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120724101508/http://stampcenter.com/blog/2010/06/23/a-sweet-tribute-to-four-chaplains-on-a-postage-stamp-part-ii-of-iii/ | url-status = dead | archive-date = July 24, 2012 | work = The Stamp Collectors Corner | title = A sweet tribute to Four Chaplains on a postage stamp: Part II of III | access-date = July 24, 2012 | date = June 23, 2010}}</ref> None of the names of the chaplains were included on the stamp, nor were their faiths (although the faiths had been listed on one of the earlier designs): instead, the words on the stamp were "These Immortal Chaplains&nbsp;... Interfaith in Action".<ref name="stamp2"/> Another phrase included in an earlier design that was not part of the final stamp was "died to save men of all faiths".<ref name="stamp2"/> By the omission of their names, the stamp commemorated the event, rather than the individuals ''per se'', thus obfuscating the ten-year rule in the same way as did later stamps honoring [[Neil Armstrong]] in 1969<ref>{{Cite web| url=http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moonstamps/ms1969b.gif| title=First Man on the Moon, 10₵ United States Air Mail stamp| access-date=August 30, 2013| archive-date=August 23, 2012| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120823054648/http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moonstamps/ms1969b.gif| url-status=dead}}</ref> and [[Buzz Aldrin]] in 1994.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moonstamps/ms1994b.gif |title= First Moon Landing, 1969, 29¢ United States postage stamp |quote= based on a photograph of Aldrin captured by Neil Armstrong on July 20, 1969 (July 21, UTC). Aldrin, conversely, captured no photographs of Armstrong |access-date= August 30, 2013 |archive-date= August 23, 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120823055014/http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moonstamps/ms1994b.gif |url-status= dead }}</ref>


===Chapel of Four Chaplains===
===Chapel of Four Chaplains===
The Chapel of the Four Chaplains was dedicated on February 3, 1951, by President [[Harry S. Truman]] to honor these chaplains of different faiths in the basement of Grace Baptist church in [[Philadelphia]]. In 1974, that congregation moved to [[Blue Bell, Pennsylvania|Blue Bell]], and sold the building to [[Temple University]]. Today{{When|date=February 2012}} [[Temple University]] is renovating that building.{{citation needed|date = February 2012}}
The Chapel of the Four Chaplains was dedicated on February 3, 1951, by President [[Harry S. Truman]] to honor these chaplains of different faiths in the basement of [[Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Phillips|first1=Tamra|title=Faith Walks and Talks: The 150-Year History of Grace Baptist--The Church That Founded Temple University|date=2022|publisher=Decentagen Publishing|location=Blue Bell}}</ref> In his dedication speech, the President said, "This interfaith shrine&nbsp;... will stand through long generations to teach Americans that as men can die heroically as brothers so should they live together in mutual faith and goodwill."<ref name="mf">{{cite web |url= http://www.fourchaplains.org |title= FourChaplains.org | publisher = The Four Chaplains Memorial Foundation |date=February 3, 1951 |access-date= January 19, 2013}}</ref>


The chapel dedication included a reminder that the interfaith team represented by the Four Chaplains was unusual. Although the chapel was dedicated as an all-faiths chapel, no Catholic priest took part in the dedication ceremony, because, as Msgr. Thomas McCarthy of the [[National Catholic Welfare Conference]] explained to ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine, "canon law forbids joint worship."<ref>{{cite magazine |url= http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,820639,00.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070330134214/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,820639,00.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= March 30, 2007 |magazine = [[Time (magazine)|Time]] |title= Four Chaplains |date= February 12, 1951 |access-date= March 14, 2016}}.</ref>
In his dedication speech, the President said, “This interfaith shrine... will stand through long generations to teach Americans that as men can die heroically as brothers so should they live together in mutual faith and goodwill.”<ref name="mf">[http://www.fourchaplains.org FourChaplains.org.]</ref>


In addition to supporting work that exemplifies the idea of "Interfaith in Action", recalling the story of the Four Chaplains, the chapel presents awards to individuals whose work reflects interfaith goals. 1984 was the first time that the award went to a military chaplain team composed of a rabbi, priest, and minister, recalling in a special way the four chaplains themselves, when the Rabbi Louis Parris Hall of Heroes Gold Medallion was presented to [[Arnold Resnicoff|Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff]]; Catholic priest Fr. George Pucciarelli; and Protestant minister Danny Wheeler—the three chaplains present at the scene of the [[1983 Beirut barracks bombing]]. The story of these three United States Navy chaplains was itself memorialized in a speech by President Ronald Reagan, on April 12, 1984.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=39775#axzz1odF5tgNH |title=U.S. Presidency records, retrieved March 9, 2012 |publisher=Presidency.ucsb.edu |date= April 13, 1984|access-date= January 19, 2013}}</ref>
The Chapel dedication included a reminder that the interfaith team represented by the Four Chaplains was unusual. Although the Chapel was dedicated as an All-Faiths Chapel, no Catholic priest took part in the dedication ceremony, because, as Msgr. Thomas McCarthy of the National Catholic Welfare Conference explained to [[Time magazine]], "canon law forbids joint worship."<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,820639,00.html Time Magazine article from February 12, 1951], retrieved February 5, 2011.</ref>


In 1972, Grace Baptist Church moved to [[Blue Bell, Pennsylvania|Blue Bell]] and sold the building to [[Temple University]] two years later. Temple University eventually decided to renovate the building as the Temple Performing Arts Center.<ref>{{cite web|title=Baptist Temple: New life on North Broad|url=http://news.temple.edu/news/baptist-temple-new-life-north-broad|website=Temple University News Center|publisher=Temple University|access-date= March 29, 2015|date= September 12, 2007}}</ref> In February 2001, the Chapel of the Four Chaplains moved to the chapel at the [[Philadelphia Naval Shipyard]].<ref>{{cite web|title=About the Chapel|url=http://www.fourchaplains.org/about-the-chapel/|publisher=Four Chaplains Memorial Foundation|access-date= March 29, 2015}}</ref>
In addition to supporting work that exemplifies the idea of ''Interfaith in Action'', recalling the story of the Four Chaplains, the Chapel presents awards to individuals whose work reflects interfaith goals. 1984 was the first time that the award went to a military chaplain team composed of a rabbi, priest, and minister, recalling in a special way the four chaplains themselves, when the ''Rabbi Louis Parris Hall of Heroes Gold Medallion'' was presented to [[Arnold Resnicoff|Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff]]; Catholic Priest Fr. George Pucciarelli; and Protestant Minister Danny Wheeler—the three chaplains present at the scene of the [[1983 Beirut barracks bombing]]. The story of these three United States Navy Chaplains was itself memorialized in a Presidential speech [[Media:Reagan Speech Beirut Bombing.ogv|(video version)]] [http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=39775 (text version)] by President Ronald Reagan, on April 12, 1984.{{citation needed|date=February 2012}}


===Memorial foundations===
===Memorial foundations===
* The Four Chaplains Memorial Foundation, the only 501(c)(3) charity related to the Four Chaplains' legacy, is housed at the former U.S. Naval Chapel located at the former South Philadelphia Navy Yard.<ref name="mf"/> Its official mission statement is "to further the cause of 'unity without uniformity' by encouraging goodwill and cooperation among all people. The organization achieves its mission by advocating for and honoring people whose deeds symbolize the legacy of the Four Chaplains aboard the U.S.A.T. Dorchester in 1943."<ref name="mf"/> In addition to its other goals and objectives, it supports memorial services that honor the memory of the chaplains and tell their story by publishing [http://www.fourchaplains.org/ServiceGuide.pdf Guidelines for Four Chaplains Interfaith Memorial Services]. Additionally, it sponsors an "Emergency Chaplains Corps" to provide support for first responders in disaster situations, and scholarship competitions for graduating high school seniors, focusing on the values of "inclusion, cooperation, and unity" exemplified by the Four Chaplains story. The competitions include a National Art Scholarship contest, a National Essay Scholarship contest, and a National Project Lifesaver Scholarship contest.<ref>[http://www.fourchaplains.org/programs.html Programs page, Four Chaplains website], retrieved February 5, 2011.</ref>
* The Four Chaplains Memorial Foundation, the only national [[501(c)(3)]] charity related to the Four Chaplains' legacy, is housed at the former U.S. Naval Chapel located at the former South Philadelphia Navy Yard.<ref name="mf"/> Its official mission statement is "to further the cause of 'unity without uniformity' by encouraging goodwill and cooperation among all people. The organization achieves its mission by advocating for and honoring people whose deeds symbolize the legacy of the Four Chaplains aboard the U.S.A.T. ''Dorchester'' in 1943."<ref name="mf"/> In addition to its other goals and objectives, it supports memorial services that honor the memory of the chaplains and tell their story by publishing ''Guidelines for Four Chaplains Interfaith Memorial Services''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fourchaplains.org/ServiceGuide.pdf |title=Service Guide | access-date= February 5, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717125647/http://www.fourchaplains.org/ServiceGuide.pdf |archive-date=July 17, 2011 | publisher = The Four Chaplains Memorial Foundation }}</ref> Additionally, it sponsors an Emergency Chaplains Corps to provide support for first responders in disaster situations, and scholarship competitions for graduating high school seniors, focusing on the values of "inclusion, cooperation, and unity" exemplified by the Four Chaplains story. The competitions include a National Art Scholarship contest, a National Essay Scholarship contest, and a National Project Lifesaver Scholarship contest.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fourchaplains.org/programs.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717125745/http://www.fourchaplains.org/programs.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 17, 2011 | title =Programs |date= July 17, 2011 | publisher = The Four Chaplains Memorial Foundation }}</ref>
* The Four Chaplains Memorial of York County, Pennsylvania, was incorporated in 2018 after more than 25 years of annual remembrances of the Four Chaplains. The York County group came together due to the connection the community had with Rabbi Goode who served a congregation in York prior to his service on the ''Dorchester''. The group holds an annual breakfast event that honors the Four Chaplains, presents legion of honor awards to deserving community members and raises scholarship funds for students from the Goode Middle School in York.
* The Immortal Chaplains Foundation was incorporated in October 1997 as a Minnesota non-profit corporation. The original concept for the Foundation was from David Fox, nephew of Chaplain George Fox, and Rosalie Goode Fried, the daughter of Chaplain Alexander Goode.<ref name="icf">[http://immortalchaplains.org/History/history.htm ImmortalChaplains.org.]</ref> The organization's goal is "to honor individuals, both past and present, whose lives exemplify the compassion of the four 'Immortal Chaplains' and who have risked all to protect others of different faith or ethnicity."<ref name="icf"/> The group presents an annual "Prize for Humanity," "to broaden national and international awareness of the legacy of the four 'Immortal Chaplains,'" "to inspire youth to the values of the four 'Immortal Chaplains,'" and "to find new partners and ways to tell this story and preserve the legacy."<ref name="icf"/> At the 1999 Award Ceremony, held in Minnesota, South African Bishop [[Desmond Tutu]] helped present Prizes for Humanity that included posthumous awards for [[Amy Biehl]], an American [[Stanford University]] student and [[Fulbright program|Fulbright scholar]] who was stabbed to death in South Africa while working to establish a Legal Education Center; and Charles W. David, an African-American Coastguardsman on board the Coastguard cutter "Commanche," who rescued many of the Dorchester survivors, later dying from pneumonia as a result of his efforts.<ref name="cr">[http://books.google.com/books?id=JbVOZ7xcxVkC&pg=SL5-PA176&lpg=SL5-PA176&dq=immortal+chaplains+foundation+four+chaplains+foundation+lawsuit&source=bl&ots=aCkdQvXvcv&sig=n3twi6C09QsDGogQleMt3rgJIqU&hl=en&ei=PvhPTYHMNYutgQeq3eVH&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDYQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false Congressional Record, February 9, 1999, pg. E176, quoting February 7, 1999, article from "Pioneer Press"], retrieved February 7, 2011.</ref> Unfortunately, the establishment of the Immortal Chaplains Foundation included some controversy, when The Chapel of Four Chaplains sued Fox to prevent him and his new group from using the phrase "The Four Chaplains" or the image of them that appeared on the U.S. postage stamp.<ref name="cr"/>
* The Immortal Chaplains Foundation was incorporated in October 1997 as a Minnesota non-profit corporation. The original concept for the foundation was from David Fox, nephew of Chaplain George Fox, and Rosalie Goode Fried, the daughter of Chaplain Alexander Goode.<ref name="icf">{{cite web |url= http://www.immortalchaplains.org/History/history.htm |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060621164211/http://www.immortalchaplains.org/History/history.htm |url-status= dead |archive-date= June 21, 2006 |title=Our History |publisher= The Immortal Chaplains Foundation |access-date= June 21, 2006}}</ref> The organization's goal is "to honor individuals, both past and present, whose lives exemplify the compassion of the four 'Immortal Chaplains' and who have risked all to protect others of different faith or ethnicity."<ref name="icf"/> The group presents an annual Prize for Humanity, "to broaden national and international awareness of the legacy of the four 'Immortal Chaplains,{{'"}} "to inspire youth to the values of the four 'Immortal Chaplains,{{'"}} and "to find new partners and ways to tell this story and preserve the legacy".<ref name="icf"/> At the 1999 award ceremony, held in Minnesota, South African Bishop [[Desmond Tutu]] helped present Prizes for Humanity that included posthumous awards for [[Amy Biehl]], an American [[Stanford University]] student and [[Fulbright program|Fulbright scholar]] who was stabbed to death in South Africa while working to establish a legal education center; and Charles W. David, an African-American Coast Guardsman on board the [[United States Coast Guard Cutter|Coast Guard Cutter]] ''Comanche'', who rescued many of the ''Dorchester'' survivors, later dying from pneumonia as a result of his efforts.<ref name="cr">{{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=JbVOZ7xcxVkC&q=immortal+chaplains+foundation+four+chaplains+foundation+lawsuit&pg=SL5-PA176 | title = Congressional Record | date = February 9, 1999 | page = E176 | quote = February 7, 1999 |via=Pioneer Press}}</ref> The establishment of the Immortal Chaplains Foundation included some controversy, when the Chapel of Four Chaplains sued Fox to prevent him and his new group from using the phrase "The Four Chaplains" or the image of them that appeared on the U.S. postage stamp.<ref name="cr"/>

[[File:Four Chaplains glass1.png|thumb|''Four Chaplains'' stained glass window, [[The Pentagon|U.S. Pentagon]]]]


===Chapels and sanctuaries===
===Chapels and sanctuaries===
* Immortal Chaplains Memorial Sanctuary - On the ''Queen Mary'' in Long Beach, California, and operated by The Immortal Chaplains Foundation. The foundation was founded by the chaplains' families and survivors of the ''Dorchester'' tragedy, including 3 survivors of ''U-boat 223'', which sank the ''Dorchester'' on February 3, 1943. The ''Queen Mary'' transported these men to the USA as POWs one year after the sinking of the ''Dorchester''.<ref>[http://www.immortalchaplains.org/Prize/prize.htm ] "A new Interfaith Memorial Sanctuary on the Queen Mary will include a diorama depicting the final moments of the four Immortal Chaplains and the 670 men who died with them."</ref>
* Immortal Chaplains Memorial Sanctuary On the ''Queen Mary'' in Long Beach, California, and operated by the Immortal Chaplains Foundation. The foundation was founded by the chaplains' families and survivors of the ''Dorchester'' tragedy, including three survivors of [[German submarine U-223|U-boat ''223'']], which sank the ''Dorchester'' on February 3, 1943. The ''Queen Mary'' transported these men to the US as POWs one year after the sinking of the ''Dorchester''.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.immortalchaplains.org/Prize/prize.htm |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071223085535/http://www.immortalchaplains.org/Prize/prize.htm |url-status= dead |archive-date= December 23, 2007 |title=A new Interfaith Memorial Sanctuary on the Queen Mary will include a diorama depicting the final moments of the four Immortal Chaplains and the 670 men who died with them |publisher=The Immortal Chaplains Foundation }}</ref>
* The chapel at the [[Pittsburgh International Airport]] was dedicated to the four chaplains in 1994.<ref>[http://www.oregon.gov/OPRD/HCD/docs/CHC_2010-2.pdf?ga=t Oregon.gov, Cultural Heritage Courier, Summer 2010] (Noting remembrances of Four Chaplains because Daniel Poling, son of Chaplain Clark Poling, attended Dallas College, Oregon), Accessed February 5, 2011.</ref>
* The chapel at the [[Pittsburgh International Airport]] was dedicated to the Four Chaplains in 1994.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.oregon.gov/OPRD/HCD/docs/CHC_2010-2.pdf?ga=t |work =Oregon.gov |title=Cultural Heritage Courier |date=Summer 2010 |quote=Noting remembrances of Four Chaplains because Daniel Poling, son of Chaplain Clark Poling, attended Dallas College, Oregon |access-date = February 5, 2011}}</ref>
* [[Joint Base Lewis-McChord]], [[Washington (U.S. state)|Washington]], Four Chaplains' Memorial Chapel & Family Life Center.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.lewis.army.mil/chapel/chapels.htm | title = Chapels | publisher = US Army}}</ref>
* [[Joint Base Lewis-McChord]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]], Four Chaplains' Memorial Chapel & Family Life Center.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.lewis.army.mil/chapel/chapels.htm | title = Chapels | publisher = US Army | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20050929032115/http://www.lewis.army.mil/chapel/chapels.htm | archive-date = September 29, 2005 }}</ref>
* Chapel at [[Camp Tuckahoe]], Boy Scouts of America, in [[York County, Pennsylvania]], dedicated in memory of Chaplain Goode.<ref>[http://www.ireference.ca/search/New%20Birth%20of%20Freedom%20Council%23Camp%20Tuckahoe New Birth of Freedom Council, Boy Scouts of America], Accessed February 5, 2011.</ref>
* Chapel at [[Camp Tuckahoe]], Boy Scouts of America, in [[York County, Pennsylvania]], dedicated in memory of Chaplain Goode.<ref>{{Cite news |title=New Birth of Freedom Council |work =Boy Scouts of America }}</ref>
* [[Camp Humphreys]], [[South Korea]], Four Chaplains Memorial Chapel is part of the expansion of the Camp Humphreys Army Base, and is scheduled to open in either 2018 or 2019. {{update inline|date=February 2019}}


===Stained glass windows===
===Stained glass windows===
* [[The Pentagon|United States Pentagon]], "A" Ring<ref name="sun">{{cite news | url= http://www.newssun.com/news/013011-Four-Chaplains | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110714175212/http://www.newssun.com/news/013011-Four-Chaplains | url-status= dead | archive-date= July 14, 2011 | title = Four-Chaplains | work = newssun.com |date= July 14, 2011 | access-date= February 5, 2011}}</ref>
[[Image:Four Chaplains glass1.png|thumb|left|Four Chaplains stained glass window, [[The Pentagon|U.S. Pentagon]]]]
* [[Fort Jackson (South Carolina)|Fort Jackson]], South Carolina, U.S. Army Chaplain Museum{{citation needed|date=February 2019}}
* United States Pentagon, A Ring.<ref name="sun">[http://www.newssun.com/news/013011-Four-Chaplains NewsSun.com], Accessed February 5, 2011.</ref>
* Ft. Bliss, Texas, in U.S. Army Sergeant Majors Academy "Four Chaplains Classroom."<ref name="sun"/>
* [[Fort Bliss]], Texas, in the U.S. Army Sergeant Majors Academy Four Chaplains Classroom<ref name="sun"/>
* Ft Snelling, Minnesota, Chapel of Immortal Chaplains<ref name="mn"/>
* [[Fort Snelling]], Minnesota, Chapel of Immortal Chaplains<ref name="mn"/>
* [[National Cathedral]], Washington, D.C, Heroes Chapel Window<ref name="sun"/>
* [[National Cathedral]], Washington, D.C, War Memorial Chapel, ''Sacrifice for Freedom'' window<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ney |last2=Crimi |first1=Diane |first2=Elody |title=Jewels of Light |date=2004 |publisher=Washington National Cathedral |isbn=978-0-9745299-4-3 |pages=142–143 }}</ref>
* Post Chapel at West Point.<ref>[http://www.usma.edu/Chaplain/ Office of the USMA Chaplain]. Click on "Chapels" in left-hand column and then click on "Post Chapel", for the chapel's history and photo. USMA official website. Retrieved 2009-12-23.</ref>
* Post Chapel at West Point<ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.usma.edu/Chaplain | title = Office of the USMA Chaplain | quote = Click on 'Chapels' in left-hand column and then click on 'Post Chapel', for the chapel's history and photo | publisher= USMA official website | access-date= December 23, 2009}}</ref>
* Memorial Chapel, United States Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.<ref>[http://carlislebarracks.carlisle.army.mil/chapel/4chaplains.cfm Carlisle Barracks website], retrieved February 5, 2011.</ref>
* Memorial Chapel, United States Army War College, [[Carlisle Barracks]], Pennsylvania<ref>{{cite web | url= http://carlislebarracks.carlisle.army.mil/chapel/4chaplains.cfm | title = Carlisle Barracks | access-date= February 5, 2011}}</ref>
* [[Mary, Queen of the Universe Shrine|Basilica of the National Shrine of Mary, Queen of the Universe]], [[Orlando, Florida|Orlando]], [[Florida]], North American Saints Window{{citation needed|date=February 2019}}
* Plymouth Congregational Church, [[Minneapolis, Minnesota]]{{citation needed|date=February 2019}}
* Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, Grace Chapel{{Citation needed|date=September 2019}}
* Chaplains Window, Saint James the Greater Roman Catholic Church, Charles Town, West Virginia
* [[Cathedral of the Air]], [[Lakehurst, New Jersey]]


===Sculptures and plaques===
===Sculptures and plaques===
* Brotherhood Memorial, Cleveland Cultural Gardens, Rockefeller Park, Cleveland OH. Installed in 1953. Large granite pillar upon which there is a bronze plaque of the Four Chaplains standing in the prow of a large boat with an angelic figure behind and above them. Text memorializes, by name, each chaplain and finishes with "...the unity of this nation founded upon the truth of human brotherhood."<ref>{{cite web|last=Lederer|first=Clara|url=http://www.clevelandmemory.org/ebooks/tpap/pg24a.html|title=In The True Spirit|work=Their Paths are Peace: The Story of Cleveland's Cultural Gardens|publisher=Cleveland Cultural Garden Federation|accessdate=February 3, 2012|pages=24-25|year=1954}}</ref>
* Brotherhood Memorial, Cleveland Cultural Gardens, Rockefeller Park, Cleveland, Ohio. Installed in 1953. Large granite pillar upon which there is a bronze plaque of the Four Chaplains standing in the prow of a large boat with an angelic figure behind and above them. Text memorializes, by name, each chaplain and finishes with "the unity of this nation founded upon the truth of human brotherhood".<ref>{{cite web | last = Lederer |first=Clara |url= http://www.clevelandmemory.org/ebooks/tpap/pg24a.html |title=In The True Spirit |work=Their Paths are Peace: The Story of Cleveland's Cultural Gardens |publisher=Cleveland Cultural Garden Federatio |access-date=February 3, 2012 |pages=24–25 |year=1954}}</ref>
* Four Chaplains Memorial, resembling a flying white bird at the top of the National Memorial Park entrance driveway, Washington, D.C., by abstract expressionist, Constantino Nivola.<ref>[http://www.thedctraveler.com/2008/06/monument-monday-a-place-to-reflect-and-remember TheDCTraveler.com], accessed February 4, 2011.</ref>
* Four Chaplains Memorial, resembling a flying white bird, by Italian-American sculptor [[Costantino Nivola]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.thedctraveler.com/2008/06/monument-monday-a-place-to-reflect-and-remember | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110110025220/http://www.thedctraveler.com/2008/06/monument-monday-a-place-to-reflect-and-remember | url-status = dead | archive-date = January 10, 2011 | title = monument monday a place to reflect and remember |access-date= January 10, 2011}}</ref> Former water sculpture located at the entrance to National Memorial Park, in Falls Church, VA, near Washington, D.C.
* Memorial at Arbor Crest Cemetery, created by sculptor [[Carlton W. Angell]], dedicated to the Four Chaplains in [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]] in 1954.<ref>[http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM5RJ9_The_Four_Chaplains_monument_Arbor_Crest_Cemetery_Ann_Arbor_Michigan Ann Arbor Crest Cemetery], retrieved February 5, 2011.</ref>
* Memorial at Arbor Crest Cemetery, created by sculptor [[Carlton W. Angell]], dedicated to the Four Chaplains in [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]] in 1954.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM5RJ9_The_Four_Chaplains_monument_Arbor_Crest_Cemetery_Ann_Arbor_Michigan | title = Ann Arbor Crest Cemetery |access-date= February 5, 2011 | work = waymarking.com}}</ref>
* Memorial plaque at [[Belmont Park]] Racecourse in [[Elmont, New York]]. It is located behind the clubhouse section of the grandstand. It is bolted onto a rock on the walkway leading to the racing secretary's office.<ref>[http://www.belmontstakes.com/history/fourchaplains.aspx BelmontStakes.com], Accessed February 5, 2011.</ref><ref>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/25843576@N02/3604684492/ Belmont Memorial image on Flikr.com], retrieved February 5, 2011.</ref>
* Memorial plaque at [[Belmont Park]] Racecourse in [[Elmont, New York]]. It is located behind the clubhouse section of the grandstand. It is bolted onto a rock on the walkway leading to the racing secretary's office.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.belmontstakes.com/history/fourchaplains.aspx | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090530222020/http://www.belmontstakes.com/history/fourchaplains.aspx | url-status = dead | archive-date = May 30, 2009 | access-date = May 30, 2009 | work = BelmontStakes.com | title = Legacy of WWII Chaplains Lives On at Belmont Park}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.flickr.com/photos/25843576@N02/3604684492/ | title = Belmont Memorial | work = Flickr.com |access-date= February 5, 2011| date = June 6, 2009 }}</ref>
* Memorial plaque in Harvard University's Memorial Church
* Memorial plaque in the main lobby (second floor) of the Kings County Courthouse, at 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, New York.
* Memorial plaque in the main lobby (second floor) of the Kings County Courthouse, at 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, New York.
* Memorial, public park, [[Dorchester, Wisconsin]].<ref>http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?MarkerID=29648</ref>
* Memorial, public park, [[Dorchester, Wisconsin]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?MarkerID=29648 |title=S.S. Dorchester Memorial Marker |publisher=Hmdb.org |access-date=January 19, 2013}}</ref>
* Memorial plaque ("The Four Chaplains Marker"), Kingwood Memorial Park, Ohio.<ref>[http://www.hmdb.org/Marker.asp?Marker=18207 HMDB.org]</ref>
* Memorial plaque ("The Four Chaplains Marker"), Kingwood Memorial Park, Ohio.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.hmdb.org/Marker.asp?Marker=18207 |title=HMDB.org |publisher=HMDB.org |access-date=January 19, 2013}}</ref>
* St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Hebron, Maryland: memorial set up inside of the church.<ref>[http://sites.google.com/site/wicomicocompositesquadron/activities/fourchaplainsveteransdayservice Wicomico Composite Squadron](Record of participation in service at site of memorial), Accessed February 5, 2011.</ref>
* St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Hebron, Maryland: memorials set up both inside and outside of the church.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://sites.google.com/site/wicomicocompositesquadron/activities/fourchaplainsveteransdayservice | title = Wicomico Composite Squadron | quote = Record of participation in service at site of memorial | access-date = February 5, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Four Immortal Chaplains Marker|url=http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=41887|publisher=The Historical Marker database|access-date=March 29, 2015}}</ref>
[[Image:CWA4Chaplins1.jpg|thumb|188px|right|Memorial, [[Ann Arbor]], Michigan]]
[[File:Four Chaplains monument, Ann Arbor, Michigan.jpg|thumb|Memorial, [[Ann Arbor]], Michigan]]
* Plaque, [[Rhode Island State House]], commemorating the Four Chaplains and a [[Rhode Island]] native, Walter McHugh, a Coast Guard member who also lost his life on the Dorchester.{{Citation needed|date=February 2010}}
* Plaque, [[Rhode Island State House]], commemorating the Four Chaplains and a [[Rhode Island]] native, Walter McHugh, a Coast Guard member who also lost his life on the ''Dorchester''.<ref>{{cite journal| url = http://www.omsa.org/files/jomsa_arch/Splits/2014/438234_JOMSA_Vol65_5_28.pdf | title = Journal of the Orders & Medals Society of America | journal = Orders & Medals Society of America | volume = 85 | year = 2014}}</ref>
* Four Chaplains Memorial, Ft. Wadsworth, Staten Island, New York.<ref>[http://www.nps.gov/gate/photosmultimedia/Fort-Wadsworth.htm Photo page for Fort Wadswoth], retrieved February 5, 2011.</ref>
* Four Chaplains Memorial, Ft. Wadsworth, Staten Island, New York.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.nps.gov/gate/photosmultimedia/Fort-Wadsworth.htm | title = Photo page for Fort Wadswoth | access-date = February 5, 2011}}</ref>
* Four Chaplains Monument, Bottineau, North Dakota.<ref>[http://www.ndtourism.com/whatdo/attractions/attraction-details.asp?AID=1578 North Dakota Tourism site], retrieved February 5, 2011.</ref><ref>[http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/11789 Image on RoadsideAmerica.com], retrieved February 5, 2011.</ref>
* Four Chaplains Monument, Bottineau, North Dakota.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.ndtourism.com/whatdo/attractions/attraction-details.asp?AID=1578 | title = North Dakota Tourism site | access-date = February 5, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/11789 | title = Image | work = RoadsideAmerica.com] | access-date = February 5, 2011}}</ref>
* Memorial, Huntington Park, Newport News, Virginia.<ref>[http://newportnewsdailyphoto.hamptonroadsdailyphoto.com/2008/05/four-heroic-chaplains.html Photos of Huntington Park Memorial], retrieved February 5, 2011.</ref>
* Memorial, Huntington Park, Newport News, Virginia.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://newportnewsdailyphoto.hamptonroadsdailyphoto.com/2008/05/four-heroic-chaplains.html | title = Photos of Huntington Park Memorial | access-date = February 5, 2011}}</ref>
* Memorial plaque, Mayor Andy Parise Park, [[Cedarhurst, New York]]
* Memorial sculpture, Washington Park Cemetery, Indiana.<ref>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/wsavespublicart/4418418521/ Image of sculpture at Washington Park Cemetery, on flikr.com], retrieved February 5, 2011.</ref>
* Memorial sculpture, Washington Park Cemetery, Indiana.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.flickr.com/photos/wsavespublicart/4418418521 | title = Image of sculpture at Washington Park Cemetery | work = flickr.com | access-date = February 5, 2011}}</ref>
* Wax display at the National Historical Wax Museum (now closed) in Washington, D.C.
* Wax display at the National Historical Wax Museum (open from 1958 to 1982, now closed) in Washington, D.C.
* Memorial outside American Legion Post 61, Sterling St., Watertown, NY.<ref>[http://www.tacarm.com/10thmountainvetpage.htm Image and description of American Legion Memorial on 10th Mountain Vet Page], retrieved February 5, 2011.</ref><ref>[http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.tacarm.com/images/10th%2520Mountain%2520Division/chaplains%2520stone.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.tacarm.com/10thmountainvetpage.htm&usg=__vtuLYiwD2Qz-nuP1JDsfEA_AI3Y=&h=824&w=928&sz=455&hl=en&start=873&zoom=1&tbnid=cZYQMKUO1K8RBM:&tbnh=139&tbnw=154&ei=0P5NTdzMOcTqgQfFxIjWDw&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfour%2Bchaplains%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26biw%3D1259%26bih%3D590%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=219&oei=wv5NTburA4GRgQfKrd3wDw&esq=6&page=45&ndsp=20&ved=1t:429,r:16,s:873&tx=98&ty=78 Close-up photo of American Legion Post 61 Memorial to Four Chaplains], retrieved February 5, 2011.</ref>
* Memorial outside American Legion Post 61, Sterling St., Watertown, NY.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.tacarm.com/10thmountainvetpage.htm | title = Image and description of American Legion Memorial on 10th Mountain Vet Page | access-date = February 5, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.tacarm.com/images/10th%2520Mountain%2520Division/chaplains%2520stone.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.tacarm.com/10thmountainvetpage.htm&usg=__vtuLYiwD2Qz-nuP1JDsfEA_AI3Y=&h=824&w=928&sz=455&hl=en&start=873&zoom=1&tbnid=cZYQMKUO1K8RBM:&tbnh=139&tbnw=154&ei=0P5NTdzMOcTqgQfFxIjWDw&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfour%2Bchaplains%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26biw%3D1259%26bih%3D590%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=219&oei=wv5NTburA4GRgQfKrd3wDw&esq=6&page=45&ndsp=20&ved=1t:429,r:16,s:873&tx=98&ty=78 | title = Close-up photo of American Legion Post 61 Memorial to Four Chaplains | access-date = February 5, 2011}}</ref>
* Four Chaplains Monument, Timothy Frost United Methodist Church, Thetford Center, Vermont. From 1936 to 1938, Rev. George Lansing Fox served as the pastor of this church and the church in Union Village Vermont.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unitedchurchofthetford.org/who-we-are/our-history/4-chaplains-monument/|title=4 Chaplains Monument|access-date=February 8, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213013450/http://www.unitedchurchofthetford.org/who-we-are/our-history/4-chaplains-monument/|archive-date=December 13, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* Four Chaplains Memorial, outside St. Stephen's Church, [[Kearny, NJ]]. St. Stephen's was Father Washington's last assignment before he joined the Army. On the 70th Anniversary of the sinking of the ''Dorchester'', this statue was dedicated. The front shows the four men, arms locked, praying on the stern of the ''Dorchester'', and the back is an angel, carrying four lifejackets for the men.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://photos.nj.com/star-ledger/2013/02/70th_anniversay_mass_at_church_20.html|title=70th Anniversary Mass, at Church of St. Stephen in Kearny|publisher=The Star-Ledger |website= NJ.com}}</ref>
* Memorial at Olathe Veterans Memorial Park, in [[Olathe, Kansas]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kansastravel.org/olathe/veteransmemorialpark.htm|title=Olathe Veterans Memorial Park – Olathe, Kansas}}</ref>
* Plaque, elevator lobby second floor, Raymond G Murphy VA Medical Center, Albuquerque, NM
* Plaque dedicated to the Four Immortal Chaplains, at the entrance to the Albany, New York War Memorial.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Four Immortal Chaplains Marker|url=http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=64989|publisher=The Historical Marker database|access-date=March 29, 2015}}</ref>
* Memorial plaque in Riverside Park opposite the entrance to Riverside Church, New York, New York.<ref name="nycgovparks">{{cite web |title=Chaplains Memorial | url= https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/riverside-park/monuments/229 |website=Riverside Park |publisher=nycgovparks.org}}</ref>
* A bas-relief tribute to the Four Chaplains located at the pedestal base of the [[Guglielmo Marconi]] statue, located in [[Church Square Park]] in [[Hoboken, NJ]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hans|first=Jim|date=1986|title=The Rededication and History of Church Square Park, Souvenir Booklet, Hoboken Historical Museum, May 1986.|url=https://hoboken.pastperfectonline.com/archive/19ED6B60-8C2C-44BE-A5E4-352037411940|access-date=March 13, 2021|website=Hoboken Historical Museum}}</ref>


===Miscellaneous remembrances===
===Miscellaneous remembrances===
* The Four Chaplains Memorial Viaduct, spanning the [[Tuscarawas River]] in [[Massillon, Ohio]], was built in 1949 and refurbished in 1993. It is part of the old [[Lincoln Highway]]. A memorial plaque can be found on the eastern end.<ref>http://www.americanlegion221.org/fourchaplains.php</ref>
* The Four Chaplains Memorial [[Viaduct]], carrying [[Ohio State Route 172]] over the [[Tuscarawas River]] in [[Massillon, Ohio]], was built in 1949 and refurbished in 1993. It is part of the old [[Lincoln Highway]]. A memorial plaque can be found on the eastern end.<ref>{{cite news |first=Gary |last=Brown |title=Postcard from Massillon: Honoring Four Chaplains |url=http://www.cantonrep.com/newsnow/x117069500/Postcard-from-Massillon-Honoring-four-chaplains |work=[[The Repository]] |date=February 4, 2012 |access-date=February 4, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208115227/http://www.cantonrep.com/newsnow/x117069500/Postcard-from-Massillon-Honoring-four-chaplains |archive-date=February 8, 2012 }}</ref>
* "Field of the Four Chaplains" at [[Fort Benning, Georgia]].<ref>http://www.pcusa.org/pcnews/2008/08066.htm</ref>
* "Field of the Four Chaplains" at [[Fort Benning, Georgia]] (now renamed Fort Moore).<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.pcusa.org/pcnews/2008/08066.htm |title=Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) – News & Announcements |publisher=Pcusa.org |date=January 15, 2013 |access-date=January 19, 2013}}</ref>
* The 23rd Degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (Northern Jurisdiction) is based on the Four Chaplains incident, teaching "that faith in God will find expression in love for our fellow man, even to the ultimate personal sacrifice".<ref>[http://www.aasrcleveland.org/aasr/wisr.htm Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite] (See explanation of 23 degree "Chief of the Tabernacle" rite.</ref>
* The 23rd Degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (Northern Jurisdiction) is based on the Four Chaplains incident, teaching "that faith in God will find expression in love for our fellow man, even to the ultimate personal sacrifice".<ref>{{cite web |title = Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite |url = http://www.aasrcleveland.org/aasr/wisr.htm |archive-url = https://archive.today/20120719000621/http://www.aasrcleveland.org/aasr/wisr.htm |url-status = dead |archive-date = July 19, 2012 |access-date=July 19, 2012 | quote = See explanation of 23-degree "Chief of the Tabernacle" rite}}</ref>
* Alexander D. Goode Elementary School in [[York, Pennsylvania]]. Students honor the four Chaplains annually.<ref>http://www.ycs.k12.pa.us/schools-mainmenu-74/goode-elementary-mainmenu-186.html</ref>
* Alexander D. Goode Elementary School in [[York, Pennsylvania]]. Students honor the Four Chaplains annually.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ycs.k12.pa.us/schools-mainmenu-74/goode-elementary-mainmenu-186.html |title=Goode K-8 – York City School District |publisher=Ycs.k12.pa.us |access-date=January 19, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103132351/http://www.ycs.k12.pa.us/schools-mainmenu-74/goode-elementary-mainmenu-186.html |archive-date=November 3, 2012 }}</ref>
* Four Chaplains Memorial Swimming Pool, Veterans Hospital, Bronx, New York.<ref>[http://www.trumanlibrary.org/photographs/view.php?id=24901&rr= TrumanLibrary.org], accessed February 4, 2011.</ref>
* Four Chaplains Memorial Swimming Pool, [[Veterans Administration Hospital in the Bronx|Veterans Hospital, Bronx]], New York.<ref>{{cite web |title= Photo of Four Chaplains Memorial Swimming Pool, Bronx Veterans Hospital |url=https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/photograph-records/98-92 |work = TrumanLibrary.org |access-date=February 4, 2011}}</ref>
* [[Knights of Columbus]] Council #13901, located at [[Fort Leonard Wood (military base)|Fort Leonard Wood]] is known as the "Four Chaplains Council".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uknight.org/CouncilSite/index.asp?CNO=13901 |title= Knights of Columbus Council #13901 |publisher=Knights of Columbus |access-date=February 3, 2014}}</ref>

===Ceremonies and services===
Ceremonies and services are held each year on or around the Feb 3 "Four Chaplains Day" by numerous military and civilian groups and organizations. [[Civitan International]], a worldwide volunteer association of service clubs, holds an interfaith [[Clergy Appreciation Week]] every year. The event honors the sacrifice of the Four Chaplains by encouraging citizens to thank the clergy that serve their communities.<ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.civitan.com/template.php?t=sr&id=93 | title= Clergy Appreciation Week | work= Civitan International website | date= | accessdate= 2008-05-27 }}</ref> The First Parish Church ([[Unitarian Universalist]]) in Dorchester, Massachusetts, hosts an ecumenical "Service of the Four Chaplains" each January.<ref>http://www.firstparishdorchester.org/</ref> The [[American Legion]] commemorates the day through services and programs at many posts throughout the nation.<ref name="legion"/>

On February 14, 2002, as part of the annual award of the Immortal Chaplains Prize for Humanity, a special reconciliation meeting took place between survivors of both the American and German sides of the sinking of the ''Dorchester''. Kurt Röser and Gerhard Buske, who had been part of the crew of the German U-boat that had torpedoed the Dorchester met with three Dorchester survivors, Ben Epstein, Walter Miller, and David Labadie, as well as Dick Swanson, who had been on board the Coast Guard Cutter Comanche, escorting the Dorchester's convoy.<ref>[http://www.immortalchaplains.org/Prize/Reconciliation/reconciliation.htm Reconciliation page, ImmortalChaplains.org], accessed February 5, 2011.</ref><ref>Gourevitch, Philip, "Former Enemies Meet in Memory of Four Martyrs," "The New Yorker," February 21 and 28, 2002.</ref>

On February 3, 2011, the [[Library of Congress]] [[Veterans History Project of the Library of Congress American Folklife Center|Veterans History Project]] and the [[United States Navy Memorial]] co-hosted a special program at the Memorial, in Washington, D.C.<ref>[http://events.washingtonexaminer.com/performer.aspx?perf_id=1834488 WashingtonExaminer.com], accessed February 4, 2011.</ref>

The Jewish Chaplains Monument at Arlington National Cemetery's Chaplains' Hill was dedicated on October 24, 2011. The monument honors 14 Jewish chaplains who died during their military service. The monument is a granite upright with a bronze plaque, similar to the three other monuments at the site honoring Catholic, Protestant and World War I chaplains. Rabbi Goode's name is the first listed on the plaque. The Jewish Chaplains Monument was approved by the United States Congress in May 2011, and the monument itself, designed by Debora Jackson of Long Island, New York, was reviewed and approved by the U.S. Fine Arts Commission on June 16, 2011. The dedication ceremony was held in Arlington's Memorial Amphitheater. The ceremony was attended by Ernie Heaton, who survived the Dorchester sinking, and Richard Swanson who was on the Coast Guard rescue team.


==See also==
==See also==
{{Portal|World War II|Saints}}
{{Portal|Saints}}
* [[Chaplain Corps (United States Army)]]
* [[Chaplain Corps (United States Army)]]
* [[Cecil Pugh]] – a South African chaplain in the [[Royal Air Force]] who gave his life in similar circumstances in 1941
* [[Musicians of the Titanic]] – lost at sea as RMS ''Titanic'' sank in 1912
* [[Tim Vakoc]] (1960–2009) – US Army chaplain severely wounded in Iraq in 2004


==References==
==References==
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* {{YouTube |vWYm7hQODDo|75th Remembrance – The Four Chaplains & The Sinking of the USAT Dorchester}}
* [http://www.armed-guard.com/dork.html Official military report of Dorchester's sinking.]
* {{cite web | url = http://www.armed-guard.com/dork.html | title = Official military report of Dorchester's sinking | access-date = August 3, 2007 | archive-date = August 10, 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070810041004/http://www.armed-guard.com/dork.html | url-status = dead }}
* [http://www.slideshare.net/MrG/usat-dorchester Slide presenation, USAT Dorchester.]
* {{cite journal | author= Sassaman, Richard | url = http://www.americainwwii.com/articles/2008/faithful-four.html | title = The Faithful Four | journal = America in WWII | date = February 2008}}
* [http://www.thefreelibrary.com/No+Greater+Sacrifice%3A+DORCHESTER'S+FOUR+CHAPLAINS-a01611663663 "No Greater Sacrifice:Dorchester's Four Chaplains, TheFreeLibrary.com.]
* {{cite news | url = http://www.theamericanstoryteller.com/story-details.cfm?story=84 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061114010948/http://www.theamericanstoryteller.com/story-details.cfm?story=84 | url-status = dead | archive-date = November 14, 2006 | type = Audio recording | title = The Four Chaplains story | work = The American Storyteller Radio Journal}}
* Sassaman, Richard, [http://www.americainwwii.com/articles/2008/faithful-four.html "The Faithful Four"], article in "America in WWII," February, 2008.
* [http://www.theamericanstoryteller.com/story-details.cfm?story=84 Audio recording of the Four Chaplains story, The American Storyteller Radio Journal]
* {{cite web | url = http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=641339 | title = Chapel of Four Chaplains | work = [[Find A Grave]]}}
* {{cite web | publisher = [[NPR]] | series = "Speaking of Faith" Memorial Day | title = Four Chaplains | url = http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/memorialday/particulars.shtml | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061002163248/http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/memorialday/particulars.shtml | archive-date = October 2, 2006 | quote = five NPR clips, including: "History of the USAT Dorchester"; "Audio Clip of Rabbi [Goode's] Wife"; "Audio Clip of Survivors"; and "Speech by [[Archbishop Desmond Tutu]]" excerpted from his speech at The Immortal Chaplains Foundation's 1999 Prize for Humanity ceremony)}}
* [http://www.fourchaplains.org The Four Chaplains Memorial Foundation]
* {{cite web | url = http://www.fau.edu/library/br099.htm | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070627002623/http://www.fau.edu/library/br099.htm | url-status = dead | archive-date = June 27, 2007 | title = Jewish Heroes and Heroines in America | publisher = FAU Library | author = Seymour "Sy" Brody | year = 1996}}
* [http://www.immortalchaplains.org The Immortal Chaplains Foundation]
* {{cite journal | url = http://www.jewishmag.com/157mag/immortal_chaplains/immortal_chaplains.htm | title = Four Immortal Chaplains who Died to Save Men of All Faiths | author = Jerry Klinger | journal = The Jewish Magazine | date = August 2011 }}
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=641339 Chapel of Four Chaplains] (at [[Find A Grave]])
* {{cite news | url = http://www.pantagraph.com/news/local/education/illinois-wesleyan-grad-one-of-immortalized-four-chaplains/article_d843fd32-1e0d-11e1-bb28-0019bb2963f4.html | title = Illinois Wesleyan grad one of immortalized 'Four Chaplains' | newspaper = Pantagraph | location = Bloomington, Illinois | author = Bill Kemp | date = December 4, 2011}}
* [http://www.armed-guard.com/dork.html U.S.A.T. Dorchester Files]
* [http://www.schwimmer.com/fourchaplains The Story of the Four Chaplains Postage Stamp]
* [http://www.sossi.org/scouters/chaplains.htm Scouts on Stamps Society International: The Immortal Chaplains]
* {{cite web | publisher = [[NPR]] | series = "Speaking of Faith" Memorial Day | title = Four Chaplains | url = http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/memorialday/particulars.shtml}} (five NPR clips, including: "History of the USAT Dorchester"; "Audio Clip of Rabbi [Goode's] Wife"; "Audio Clip of Survivors"; and "Speech by [[Archbishop Desmond Tutu]]" excerpted from his speech at The Immortal Chaplains Foundation's 1999 Prize for Humanity ceremony)
* [http://www.fau.edu/library/br099.htm FAU.edu]
* [http://www.homeofheroes.com/brotherhood/chaplains.html HomeOfHeroes.com]<!-- and http://www.homeofheroes.com/brotherhood/chaplains2.html HomeOfHeroes.com] -->
* [http://www.jewishmag.com/157mag/immortal_chaplains/immortal_chaplains.htm Four Immortal Chaplains who Died to Save Men of All Faiths]


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The Four Chaplains, also referred to as the Immortal Chaplains or the Dorchester Chaplains, were four chaplains who died rescuing civilian and military personnel as the American troop ship SS Dorchester sank on February 3, 1943, in what has been referred to as the one of the worst sea disasters of World War II.[1]

The Dorchester, a civilian liner, had been converted for military service in World War II as a troop transport of the War Shipping Administration. The ship left New York on January 23, 1943, en route to Greenland, carrying approximately 900 as part of a convoy of three ships escorted by Coast Guard Cutters Tampa, Escanaba, and Comanche.[2] During the early morning hours of February 3, the vessel was torpedoed by the German submarine U-223 off Newfoundland in the North Atlantic.[3] The chaplains helped the other soldiers board lifeboats and gave up their own life jackets when the supply ran out.[4] The chaplains joined arms, said prayers, and sang hymns as they went down with the ship.

The impact of the chaplains' story was deep, with many memorials and extensive coverage in the media. Each of the four chaplains was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and the Purple Heart.[5] The chaplains were nominated for the Medal of Honor, but were ineligible as they had not engaged in combat with the enemy. Instead, Congress created a medal for them, with the same weight and importance as the Medal of Honor.[5]

The chaplains

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The relatively new chaplains all held the rank of first lieutenant. They included Methodist minister the Reverend George L. Fox, Reform Rabbi Alexander D. Goode (PhD), Catholic priest Father John P. Washington, and Reformed Church in America minister the Reverend Clark V. Poling. Their backgrounds, personalities, and denominations were different, although Goode, Poling and Washington had all served as leaders in the Boy Scouts of America.[6] They met at the Army Chaplains School at Harvard University, where they prepared for assignments in the European theater, sailing on board Dorchester to report to their new assignments.

George Lansing Fox

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George L. Fox was born March 15, 1900, in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, the eldest of eight children. When he was 17, he left school and lied about his age in order to join the Army to serve in World War I. He joined the ambulance corps in 1917, assigned to Camp Newton D. Baker in Texas. On December 3, 1917, George embarked from Camp Merritt, New Jersey, and boarded the USS Huron en route to France. As a medical corps assistant, he was highly decorated for bravery and was awarded the Silver Star, Purple Heart and the French Croix de Guerre.[7]

Upon his discharge, he returned home to Altoona, where he completed high school. He entered Moody Bible Institute in Illinois in 1923. He and Isadora G. Hurlbut of Vermont were married in 1923, when he began his religious career as an itinerant preacher in the Methodist faith. He later graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, served as a student pupil in Rye, New Hampshire, and then studied at the Boston University School of Theology, where he was ordained a Methodist minister on June 10, 1934. He served parishes in Thetford, Union Village, and Gilman, Vermont, and was appointed state chaplain and historian for the American Legion in Vermont.[7]

In 1942, Fox volunteered to serve as an Army chaplain, accepting his appointment July 24, 1942. He began active duty on August 8, 1942, the same day his son Wyatt enlisted in the Marine Corps. After Army Chaplains School at Harvard, he reported to the 411th Coast Artillery Battalion at Camp Davis. He was then reunited with Chaplains Goode, Poling and Washington at Camp Myles Standish in Taunton, Massachusetts, where they prepared to depart for Europe on board the Dorchester.[7]

Alexander David Goode

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Reform Rabbi Alexander D. Goode (PhD) was born in Brooklyn, New York, on May 10, 1911, the son of Rabbi Hyman Goodekowitz. He was raised in Washington, D.C., attending Eastern High School, eventually deciding to follow his father's footsteps by studying for the rabbinate at Hebrew Union College (HUC), where he graduated with a B.H. degree in 1937. He later received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1940. While studying for the rabbinate at HUC, he worked at the Washington Hebrew Congregation during summer breaks.[8]

He originally applied to become a Navy chaplain in January 1941, but was not accepted. After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, he applied to the Army, receiving his appointment as a chaplain on July 21, 1942. Chaplain Goode went on active duty on August 9, 1942, and was selected for the Chaplains School at Harvard. Chaplain Goode was then assigned to the 333rd Fighter Squadron in Goldsboro, North Carolina. In October 1942, he was transferred to Camp Myles Standish in Taunton, Massachusetts, and reunited with Chaplains Fox, Poling and Washington, who had been among his classmates at Harvard.[9]

Clark Vandersall Poling

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Clark V. Poling was born August 7, 1910, in Columbus, Ohio, the son of evangelical minister Daniel A. Poling, who was rebaptized in 1936 as a Baptist minister. Clark Poling studied at Yale University's Divinity School in New Haven, Connecticut and graduated with his B.D. degree in 1936. He was ordained in the Reformed Church in America, and served first in the First Church of Christ, New London, Connecticut, and then as pastor of the First Reformed Church, in Schenectady, New York. He married Betty Jung.

With the outbreak of World War II, Poling decided to enter the Army, wanting to face the same danger as others. His father, who had served as a World War I chaplain, told him chaplains risk and give their lives, too—and with that knowledge, he applied to serve as an Army chaplain, accepting an appointment on June 10, 1942, as a chaplain with the 131st Quartermaster Truck Regiment, reporting to Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on June 25. Later he reported to Army Chaplains School at Harvard, where he met Chaplains Fox, Goode, and Washington.[10] Clark V. Poling's father, Daniel A. Poling was pastor of Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia when the Dorchester was sunk. The church had been planning a memorial for its well-known pastor Russell Conwell but decided to put all efforts towards creating the Chapel of the Four Chaplains in the basement of the church instead.[11]

John Patrick Washington

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John P. Washington was born in Newark, New Jersey, on July 18, 1908. He studied at Seton Hall, in South Orange, New Jersey, to complete his high school and college courses in preparation for the Catholic priesthood. He graduated in 1931 with an A.B., entering Immaculate Conception Seminary in Darlington, New Jersey, where he received his minor orders on May 26, 1933. He served as a subdeacon at all the Solemn Masses and later became a deacon on December 25, 1934. He was elected prefect of his class and was ordained a priest on June 15, 1935.

Father Washington's first parish was at St. Genevieve's, in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He later served at St. Venantius for a year. In 1938, he was assigned to St. Stephen's in Kearny, New Jersey. Shortly after the Pearl Harbor attack of December 7, 1941, he received his appointment as a chaplain in the United States Army, reporting for active duty on May 9, 1942. He was named chief of the Chaplains' Reserve Pool, in Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, and in June 1942, he was assigned to the 76th Infantry Division in Ft. George Meade, Maryland. In November 1942, he reported to Camp Myles Standish in Taunton, Massachusetts, and met Chaplains Fox, Goode and Poling at Chaplains School at Harvard.[12]

The ship and its sinking

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Dorchester

The Dorchester had been a 5,649 ton civilian liner, 368 feet long with a 52-foot beam and a single funnel, originally built in 1926 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, for the Merchants and Miners Line, operating ships from Baltimore to Florida, carrying both freight and passengers.[13] It was the third of four liners being built for the Line.

The ship was converted for military service in World War II as a War Shipping Administration troop transport operated by Atlantic, Gulf & West Indies Steamship Lines (Agwilines) allocated to United States Army requirements.[14][15] The conversion was done in New York by the Atlantic, Gulf, and West Indies (AGWI) SS Company, and included additional lifeboats and liferafts; guns (a 3-inch gun forward, a 4-inch gun aft, and four 20 mm guns); and changes to the large windows in the pilot house so that they would be reduced to slits to afford more protection.[16]

Designed for 314 civilian passengers and 90 crew, she was able to carry slightly more than 900 military passengers and crew.[14]

Dorchester left New York on January 23, 1943, en route to Greenland, carrying the four chaplains and approximately 900 others, as part of a convoy of three ships (SG-19 convoy). Most of the military personnel were not told the ship's ultimate destination. The convoy was escorted by Coast Guard Cutters Tampa, Escanaba, and Comanche.[2]

Coast Guard Cutter USCGC Escanaba rescues Dorchester survivors.

The ship's captain, Hans J. Danielsen, had been alerted that Coast Guard sonar had detected a submarine. Because German U-boats were monitoring sea lanes and had attacked and sunk ships earlier during the war, Captain Danielsen had the ship's crew on a state of high alert even before he received that information, ordering the men to sleep in their clothing and keep their life jackets on. "Many soldiers sleeping deep in the ship's hold disregarded the order because of the engine's heat. Others ignored it because the life jackets were uncomfortable."[3]

During the early morning hours of February 3, 1943, at 12:55 am, the vessel was torpedoed by the German submarine U-223 off Newfoundland in the North Atlantic.[3]

The torpedo knocked out the Dorchester's electrical system, leaving the ship dark. Panic set in among the men on board, many of them trapped below decks. The chaplains sought to calm the men and organize an orderly evacuation of the ship, and helped guide wounded men to safety. As life jackets were passed out to the men, the supply ran out before each man had one. The chaplains removed their own life jackets and gave them to others. They helped as many men as they could into lifeboats, and then linked arms and, saying prayers and singing hymns, went down with the ship.[3]

As I swam away from the ship, I looked back. The flares had lighted everything. The bow came up high and she slid under. The last thing I saw, the Four Chaplains were up there praying for the safety of the men. They had done everything they could. I did not see them again. They themselves did not have a chance without their life jackets.

— Grady Clark, survivor[17]

According to some reports, survivors could hear different languages mixed in the prayers of the chaplains, including Jewish prayers in Hebrew and Catholic prayers in Latin. Only 230 of the 904 men aboard the ship were rescued. Life jackets offered little protection from hypothermia, which killed most men in the water. The water temperature was 34 °F (1 °C) and the air temperature was 36 °F (2 °C). By the time additional rescue ships arrived, "hundreds of dead bodies were seen floating on the water, kept up by their life jackets."[18]

Cultural impact

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In film

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  • The 60-minute TV documentary The Four Chaplains: Sacrifice at Sea was produced in 2004.[19]
  • In 2008 development of a movie based on the chaplains' story, titled Lifeboat 13, was announced.[20][21] As of 2022, no further information had been released about the project.

In print

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  • Francis Beauchesne Thornton (1953). Sea of Glory: The Magnificent Story of the Four Chaplains. Prentice Hall. LCCN 52010662. OCLC 1349281.
  • Dan Kurzman (2004). No Greater Glory: The Four Immortal Chaplains and the Sinking of the Dorchester in World War II. Random House. ISBN 978-0375508776. OCLC 53019525.
  • Wales, Ken; Poling, David (2006). Sea of Glory: Based on the True WW II Story of the Four Chaplains and the U.S.A.T. Dorchester. B&H Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0805443806 – via Google Books. As the title indicates, it is 'based on' the story, not an actual factual account.
  • "Chaplains at War". The Living Bible (comic). No. 3. March 1946. [22]
  • Edgar A. Guest (1949). Four Men of God. Reilly & Lee Company. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  • Chester Szymczak (1956). When Time Stood Still: The S.S. Dorchester's Last Heroic Night. Dorrance & Company, Inc. LCCN 56-11555.
  • Chester J. Szymczak (1976). The Men The Ship: The Famous Four Chaplains Story And The Sinking Of The Dorchester. Great Lakes Publishing Co., Inc. LCCN 76-11392.

In music

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  • A composition entitled "The Light Eternal", written by James Swearingen in 1992, tells the story of the Four Chaplains through music.[23]
  • "The Ballad of the Four Chaplains" written and performed by Dead Men's Hollow[24]

In art

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In addition to the stained glass windows recalling the chaplains and their heroism, paintings include:

  • Four Chaplains, 1943, by Alton Tobey[25]
  • A Moment of Peace, Ft. Jackson, South Carolina, painted by Steven Carter.[26]
  • The Four Chaplains, Chapel of Four Chaplains.[27]
  • The Four Chaplains, by Art Seidan (the four, pictured at the rail of the ship).[28]
  • Four Chaplains Mural, by artist Connie Burns Watkins, commissioned by the Rotary Club of York, Pennsylvania.[29]
  • Four Chaplains Mural, painted by Dean Fausett, at entrance to Joseph "Ziggy" Kahn Gymnasium, Jewish Community Center Irene Kaufman Building, Squirrel Hill, Pennsylvania.[30]
  • Four Chaplains Mural, painted by Connie Burns Watkins, in York, Pennsylvania.
  • Four Chaplains Mural, painted by Nils Hogner, at the Chapel of Four Chaplains[31]
  • Four Chaplains Monument and Eternal Flame, Riverview Park, Sebastian Florida[32]

Other

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  • The two-hour audio documentary No Greater Love tells the story, including interviews with survivors, rescuers, and naval historians.[2]
  • The 23rd degree conferred by the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, entitled "Knight of Valor" tells the story of the Four Chaplains as a lesson of personal sacrifice to aid one's fellow man.[33]

Remembrance

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Awards

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Four Chaplains' Medal

On December 19, 1944, all four chaplains were posthumously awarded the Purple Heart and the Distinguished Service Cross.[34]

Additionally, members of Congress later authorized a special medal, the Four Chaplains' Medal, approved by a unanimous act of Congress on July 14, 1960, through Public Law 86-656.[35][36] The medals were presented posthumously to the next of kin of each of the four chaplains by Secretary of the Army Wilber M. Brucker at Fort Myer, Virginia, on January 18, 1961.[37]

Four Chaplains Day

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Ceremonies and services are held each year on or around the February 3 Four Chaplains Day by numerous military and civilian groups and organizations. In 1998, February 3 of that year was established by senate resolution 169-98 as Four Chaplains Day to commemorate the 55th anniversary of the sinking of United States Army transport Dorchester and subsequent heroism of these men.[38] Some state or city officials commemorate the day with official proclamations, sometimes including the order that flags fly at half-mast in memory of the fallen chaplains.[39] In some cases, official proclamations establish observances at other times: for example, North Dakota legislation requests that the governor issue an annual proclamation establishing the first Sunday in February as Four Chaplains Sunday.[40]

Civitan International, a worldwide volunteer association of service clubs, holds an interfaith Clergy Appreciation Week every year. The event honors the sacrifice of the Four Chaplains by encouraging citizens to thank the clergy that serve their communities.[41] The First Parish Church (Unitarian Universalist) in Dorchester, Massachusetts, hosts an ecumenical Service of the Four Chaplains each January.[42] The American Legion commemorates the day through services and programs at many posts throughout the nation.[43]

On February 14, 2002, as part of the annual award of the Immortal Chaplains Prize for Humanity, a special reconciliation meeting took place between survivors of both the American and German sides of the sinking of the Dorchester. Kurt Röser and Gerhard Buske, who had been part of the crew of the German U-boat that had torpedoed the Dorchester met with three Dorchester survivors, Ben Epstein, Walter Miller, and David Labadie, as well as Dick Swanson, who had been on board the Coast Guard Cutter Comanche, escorting the Dorchester's convoy.[44][45]

On February 3, 2011, the Library of Congress Veterans History Project and the United States Navy Memorial co-hosted a special program at the memorial, in Washington, D.C.[46]

The Jewish Chaplains Monument at Arlington National Cemetery's Chaplains' Hill was dedicated on October 24, 2011. The monument honors 14 Jewish chaplains who died during their military service. The monument is a granite upright with a bronze plaque, similar to the three other monuments at the site honoring Catholic, Protestant and World War I chaplains. Rabbi Goode's name is the first listed on the plaque. The Jewish Chaplains Monument was approved by the United States Congress in May 2011, and the monument itself, designed by Debora Jackson of Long Island, New York, was reviewed and approved by the U.S. Fine Arts Commission on June 16, 2011. The dedication ceremony was held in Arlington's Memorial Amphitheater. The ceremony was attended by Ernie Heaton, who survived the Dorchester sinking, and Richard Swanson who was on the Coast Guard rescue team.[47]

U.S. postage stamp

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Four Chaplains stamp, 1948
Four Chaplains Stamp on official first day cover, 1948

The chaplains were honored with a commemorative stamp that was issued in 1948, and was designed by Louis Schwimmer, the head of the Art Department of the New York branch of the U.S. Post Office Department (now called the USPS).[48] This stamp is highly unusual, because until 2011,[49] U.S. stamps were not normally issued in honor of someone other than a president of the United States until at least ten years after his or her death.[50]

The stamp went through three revisions before the final design was chosen.[51] None of the names of the chaplains were included on the stamp, nor were their faiths (although the faiths had been listed on one of the earlier designs): instead, the words on the stamp were "These Immortal Chaplains ... Interfaith in Action".[51] Another phrase included in an earlier design that was not part of the final stamp was "died to save men of all faiths".[51] By the omission of their names, the stamp commemorated the event, rather than the individuals per se, thus obfuscating the ten-year rule in the same way as did later stamps honoring Neil Armstrong in 1969[52] and Buzz Aldrin in 1994.[53]

Chapel of Four Chaplains

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The Chapel of the Four Chaplains was dedicated on February 3, 1951, by President Harry S. Truman to honor these chaplains of different faiths in the basement of Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia.[54] In his dedication speech, the President said, "This interfaith shrine ... will stand through long generations to teach Americans that as men can die heroically as brothers so should they live together in mutual faith and goodwill."[55]

The chapel dedication included a reminder that the interfaith team represented by the Four Chaplains was unusual. Although the chapel was dedicated as an all-faiths chapel, no Catholic priest took part in the dedication ceremony, because, as Msgr. Thomas McCarthy of the National Catholic Welfare Conference explained to Time magazine, "canon law forbids joint worship."[56]

In addition to supporting work that exemplifies the idea of "Interfaith in Action", recalling the story of the Four Chaplains, the chapel presents awards to individuals whose work reflects interfaith goals. 1984 was the first time that the award went to a military chaplain team composed of a rabbi, priest, and minister, recalling in a special way the four chaplains themselves, when the Rabbi Louis Parris Hall of Heroes Gold Medallion was presented to Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff; Catholic priest Fr. George Pucciarelli; and Protestant minister Danny Wheeler—the three chaplains present at the scene of the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing. The story of these three United States Navy chaplains was itself memorialized in a speech by President Ronald Reagan, on April 12, 1984.[57]

In 1972, Grace Baptist Church moved to Blue Bell and sold the building to Temple University two years later. Temple University eventually decided to renovate the building as the Temple Performing Arts Center.[58] In February 2001, the Chapel of the Four Chaplains moved to the chapel at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard.[59]

Memorial foundations

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  • The Four Chaplains Memorial Foundation, the only national 501(c)(3) charity related to the Four Chaplains' legacy, is housed at the former U.S. Naval Chapel located at the former South Philadelphia Navy Yard.[55] Its official mission statement is "to further the cause of 'unity without uniformity' by encouraging goodwill and cooperation among all people. The organization achieves its mission by advocating for and honoring people whose deeds symbolize the legacy of the Four Chaplains aboard the U.S.A.T. Dorchester in 1943."[55] In addition to its other goals and objectives, it supports memorial services that honor the memory of the chaplains and tell their story by publishing Guidelines for Four Chaplains Interfaith Memorial Services.[60] Additionally, it sponsors an Emergency Chaplains Corps to provide support for first responders in disaster situations, and scholarship competitions for graduating high school seniors, focusing on the values of "inclusion, cooperation, and unity" exemplified by the Four Chaplains story. The competitions include a National Art Scholarship contest, a National Essay Scholarship contest, and a National Project Lifesaver Scholarship contest.[61]
  • The Four Chaplains Memorial of York County, Pennsylvania, was incorporated in 2018 after more than 25 years of annual remembrances of the Four Chaplains. The York County group came together due to the connection the community had with Rabbi Goode who served a congregation in York prior to his service on the Dorchester. The group holds an annual breakfast event that honors the Four Chaplains, presents legion of honor awards to deserving community members and raises scholarship funds for students from the Goode Middle School in York.
  • The Immortal Chaplains Foundation was incorporated in October 1997 as a Minnesota non-profit corporation. The original concept for the foundation was from David Fox, nephew of Chaplain George Fox, and Rosalie Goode Fried, the daughter of Chaplain Alexander Goode.[62] The organization's goal is "to honor individuals, both past and present, whose lives exemplify the compassion of the four 'Immortal Chaplains' and who have risked all to protect others of different faith or ethnicity."[62] The group presents an annual Prize for Humanity, "to broaden national and international awareness of the legacy of the four 'Immortal Chaplains,'" "to inspire youth to the values of the four 'Immortal Chaplains,'" and "to find new partners and ways to tell this story and preserve the legacy".[62] At the 1999 award ceremony, held in Minnesota, South African Bishop Desmond Tutu helped present Prizes for Humanity that included posthumous awards for Amy Biehl, an American Stanford University student and Fulbright scholar who was stabbed to death in South Africa while working to establish a legal education center; and Charles W. David, an African-American Coast Guardsman on board the Coast Guard Cutter Comanche, who rescued many of the Dorchester survivors, later dying from pneumonia as a result of his efforts.[63] The establishment of the Immortal Chaplains Foundation included some controversy, when the Chapel of Four Chaplains sued Fox to prevent him and his new group from using the phrase "The Four Chaplains" or the image of them that appeared on the U.S. postage stamp.[63]
Four Chaplains stained glass window, U.S. Pentagon

Chapels and sanctuaries

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  • Immortal Chaplains Memorial Sanctuary – On the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California, and operated by the Immortal Chaplains Foundation. The foundation was founded by the chaplains' families and survivors of the Dorchester tragedy, including three survivors of U-boat 223, which sank the Dorchester on February 3, 1943. The Queen Mary transported these men to the US as POWs one year after the sinking of the Dorchester.[64]
  • The chapel at the Pittsburgh International Airport was dedicated to the Four Chaplains in 1994.[65]
  • Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, Four Chaplains' Memorial Chapel & Family Life Center.[66]
  • Chapel at Camp Tuckahoe, Boy Scouts of America, in York County, Pennsylvania, dedicated in memory of Chaplain Goode.[67]
  • Camp Humphreys, South Korea, Four Chaplains Memorial Chapel is part of the expansion of the Camp Humphreys Army Base, and is scheduled to open in either 2018 or 2019. [needs update]

Stained glass windows

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Sculptures and plaques

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  • Brotherhood Memorial, Cleveland Cultural Gardens, Rockefeller Park, Cleveland, Ohio. Installed in 1953. Large granite pillar upon which there is a bronze plaque of the Four Chaplains standing in the prow of a large boat with an angelic figure behind and above them. Text memorializes, by name, each chaplain and finishes with "the unity of this nation founded upon the truth of human brotherhood".[72]
  • Four Chaplains Memorial, resembling a flying white bird, by Italian-American sculptor Costantino Nivola.[73] Former water sculpture located at the entrance to National Memorial Park, in Falls Church, VA, near Washington, D.C.
  • Memorial at Arbor Crest Cemetery, created by sculptor Carlton W. Angell, dedicated to the Four Chaplains in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1954.[74]
  • Memorial plaque at Belmont Park Racecourse in Elmont, New York. It is located behind the clubhouse section of the grandstand. It is bolted onto a rock on the walkway leading to the racing secretary's office.[75][76]
  • Memorial plaque in Harvard University's Memorial Church
  • Memorial plaque in the main lobby (second floor) of the Kings County Courthouse, at 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, New York.
  • Memorial, public park, Dorchester, Wisconsin.[77]
  • Memorial plaque ("The Four Chaplains Marker"), Kingwood Memorial Park, Ohio.[78]
  • St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Hebron, Maryland: memorials set up both inside and outside of the church.[79][80]
Memorial, Ann Arbor, Michigan
  • Plaque, Rhode Island State House, commemorating the Four Chaplains and a Rhode Island native, Walter McHugh, a Coast Guard member who also lost his life on the Dorchester.[81]
  • Four Chaplains Memorial, Ft. Wadsworth, Staten Island, New York.[82]
  • Four Chaplains Monument, Bottineau, North Dakota.[83][84]
  • Memorial, Huntington Park, Newport News, Virginia.[85]
  • Memorial plaque, Mayor Andy Parise Park, Cedarhurst, New York
  • Memorial sculpture, Washington Park Cemetery, Indiana.[86]
  • Wax display at the National Historical Wax Museum (open from 1958 to 1982, now closed) in Washington, D.C.
  • Memorial outside American Legion Post 61, Sterling St., Watertown, NY.[87][88]
  • Four Chaplains Monument, Timothy Frost United Methodist Church, Thetford Center, Vermont. From 1936 to 1938, Rev. George Lansing Fox served as the pastor of this church and the church in Union Village Vermont.[89]
  • Four Chaplains Memorial, outside St. Stephen's Church, Kearny, NJ. St. Stephen's was Father Washington's last assignment before he joined the Army. On the 70th Anniversary of the sinking of the Dorchester, this statue was dedicated. The front shows the four men, arms locked, praying on the stern of the Dorchester, and the back is an angel, carrying four lifejackets for the men.[90]
  • Memorial at Olathe Veterans Memorial Park, in Olathe, Kansas.[91]
  • Plaque, elevator lobby second floor, Raymond G Murphy VA Medical Center, Albuquerque, NM
  • Plaque dedicated to the Four Immortal Chaplains, at the entrance to the Albany, New York War Memorial.[92]
  • Memorial plaque in Riverside Park opposite the entrance to Riverside Church, New York, New York.[93]
  • A bas-relief tribute to the Four Chaplains located at the pedestal base of the Guglielmo Marconi statue, located in Church Square Park in Hoboken, NJ.[94]

Miscellaneous remembrances

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See also

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References

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