TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yost,Israel A.S.
AU  - Markrich,Michael
AU  - Yost,Monica
AU  - Yost,Monica E.
TI  - Combat Chaplain: The Personal Story of the WWII Chaplain of the Japanese American 100th Battalion 
SN  - 9780824830236
U1  - 940 
PY  - 2006///]
CY  - Honolulu : 
PB  - University of Hawaii Press, 
KW  - Japanese American soldiers
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Personal narratives, American
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Italy
KW  - Chaplains
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Foreword --; Preface --; List of Abbreviations --; Prologue --; 1. The Assignment --; 2. The Making of the 100th --; 3. From Parson to Chaplain --; 4. Back to Serious Business --; 5. How Long in These Hills? --; 6. A Reprieve before Cassino --; 7. Failure at Cassino --; 8. Anzio and Rome --; 9. North to Pisa --; 10. La Belle France --; 11. On the Border --; 12. Italian Finale --; 13. Three More Months --; Epilogue --; Afterword --; Appendix --; Works Cited --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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.Forty years after the war had ended, with the help of his field diaries and the letters he had written almost daily to his wife, Yost wrote of his wartime experiences in the hopes that they might one day be published as a record of the remarkable character and accomplishments of the 100th. Combat Chaplain presents this heartfelt memoir intact. with the addition of photographs and subsequent letters and speeches by Yost and other veterans
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824861933
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824861933
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780824861933/original
ER  -