![]() | Combat Chaplain: The Personal Story of the WWII Chaplain of the Japanese American 100th Battalion Subjects: Yost Israel A. S. 1916–2000; United States. Army. Infantry Battalion 100th; World War 1939–1945 -- Personal narratives American; World War 1939–1945 -- Chaplains -- United States -- Biography; United States. Army -- Chaplains -- Biography; Japanese; 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. |
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