A couple of nights ago, I was looking through a 1941 annual report for one of the predecessor church bodies to the current Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (one of the Norwegian churches) and came across a page on Army and Navy chaplains. Most were pictured, but there was a blurb about one chaplain who had “died in action on August 25, 1941.”
That was more than three months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Anyone out there have any idea what “action” the book could have been describing?
UPDATE: The church annual also covered Canada, and some of the chaplains listed were in the Canadian and Newfoundland armies. It is possible the chaplain was killed during the Anglo-Canadian attack on Spitsberg Island, which took place on August 25, 1941.
6:40 am on September 16, 2009
