Word: chaplain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outsiders were hard at it, too. Cinemactor Gene Lockhart, celebrating a Navy Chaplain's now-famed words during the attack on Pearl Harbor, wrote a "fighting hymn," Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition. General Manager Kent Cooper of the Associated Press tapped out America Needs You. Citizens Song had words by Louis Conyers (pen name of Mrs. Junius Spencer Morgan, daughter-in-law of John Pierpont Morgan...
...Maryknoller is the Roman Catholic chaplain on exposed Midway Island, 1,300 miles northwest of Hawaii, from which the Japs have been repeatedly beaten...
...only parson paratrooper in the U.S. His formal title is Lieut. Raymond S. Hall, and he is chaplain (Episcopal) of the Provisional Parachute Group at Fort Benning...
When he was assigned to Fort Benning in January, middle-sized, softspoken, muscular Chaplain Hall did not plan to do any jumping. But some of the boys suggested that he might make a jumper, and so he went into training...
Before making his first jump from a "free parachute'' tower last week, Chaplain Hall observed: "You know, I'm honestly nuts to get up and jump and I'm crazy about this outfit. But it's a little funny. I've never been in a plane in my life." He jumped, sprained both legs. Undaunted, he will jump from a plane when his legs mend...