[Japanophiles] Combat Chaplain

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Dear Japanophiles,

Continuing our WWII and the Japanese, we have the story of WWII  
combat chaplain Israel Yost who served with the all-Japanese units in  
Italy.


Combat Chaplain
The Personal Story of the WWII Chaplain of the Japanese American  
100th Battalion
"In October 1943, twenty-seven-year-old combat infantry chaplain  
Israel Yost arrived in Italy with the 100th Battalion, a little-known  
National Guard unit of mostly Japanese Americans from Hawai'i. Yost  
was apprehensive when he learned of his assignment to this unusual  
unit composed of soldiers with whom he felt he had little in common  
and who were mostly Buddhists. But this would soon change.

For the next nineteen months at the front - from Salerno to Monte  
Cassino to Anzio to Bruyeres - Yost assisted medics, retrieved bodies  
from the battlefield, buried enemy soldiers, struggled to bolster  
morale as the number of casualties rose higher and higher, and wrote  
countless letters of condolence, all in addition to fulfilling his  
ministerial duties, which included preaching in the foxholes.  
Although his sermons won few converts, Yost's tireless energy and  
concern for others earned him admiration from his fellow soldiers,  
who often turned to him as a trusted friend and spiritual advisor."

http://www.rolomail.com/cgi-bin/sanadd.pl?541



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