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Combat chaplain :

(Number (ISBN

0824861930

(Number (ISBN

1435666135

(Number (ISBN

9780824861933

(Number (ISBN

9781435666139

Erroneous ISBN

0824830237

Erroneous ISBN

0824830822

Erroneous ISBN

9780824830236

Erroneous ISBN

9780824830823

Number

b799348

Title Proper

Combat chaplain :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the personal story of the World War II chaplain of the Japanese American 100th Battalion /

First Statement of Responsibility

Israel A.S. Yost ; Monica E. Yost and Michael Markrich, editors.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Honolulu :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Hawaii Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2006.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xv, 308 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, maps

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (page 299) and index.

Text of Note

FOREWORD; PREFACE; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; PROLOGUE; The Assignment; The Making of the 100th; From Parson to Chaplain; Back to Serious Business; How Long in These Hills?; A Reprieve before Cassino; Failure at Cassino; Anzio and Rome; North to Pisa; La Belle France; On the Border; Italian Finale; Three More Months; Epilogue; AFTERWORD; APPENDIX; WORKS CITED; INDEX.

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"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 Hawaii. 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. Before long Yost found himself living and working shoulder to shoulder with these men under enemy fire in freezing temperatures and mountainous terrain. In the midst of the difficulties and dangers, he had many opportunities to experience and observe the generosity of the soldiers toward himself and others, including the Italian peasants they encountered. He wrote to his wife of their obsession with finding fresh food to supplement their C-rations, their largely unintelligible Island pidgin, and his friendships with Captain Katsumi Kometani, the battalion's morale officer and dentist; Captain Jack Mizuha, later a Hawaii Supreme Court justice; and Lieutenant Spark Matsunaga, who would go on to serve many terms as a senator from Hawaii." "For the next nineteen months at the front - from Salerno to Monte Cassino to Anzio to Bruyeres, France - 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." "At war's end, no other battalion would receive as many decorations and honors as the 100th. Yost returned to Pennsylvania and the life of a small town pastor. Forty years later, with the help of the letters he had written almost daily to his -

Text of Note

Wife and his field diaries, he 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."--Jacket.

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

JSTOR

Stock Number

22573/ctt62t0pb

Title

Combat chaplain.

International Standard Book Number

0824830822

Yost, Israel A. S.,1916-2000.

Yost, Israel A. S.,1916-2000.

United States.

United States.-- Chaplains

United States.

United States.

Japanese American soldiers.

Military chaplains-- United States, Biography.

World War, 1939-1945-- Campaigns-- Italy.

World War, 1939-1945-- Chaplains-- United States, Biography.

World War, 1939-1945, Personal narratives, American.

Armed Forces-- Chaplains

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Historical.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Military.

Chaplains.

HISTORY-- Military-- World War II.

Japanese American soldiers.

Military campaigns.

Military chaplains.

Italy.

United States.

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BIO-- 006000

BIO008000

HIS-- 027100

HIS027110

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Yost, Israel A. S.,1916-2000

Markrich, Michael

Yost, Monica Elizabeth,1942-

Date of Transaction

20201207114902.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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