J.W.V. SUPPLEMENT
Friday, March 20, 1970-33
JEWS IN WORLD WAR I
Jews to the number of 250,000 served with the American fighting
forces during the first World War.
Jews composed 41/2 percent of the fighting forces, whereas the
Jews formed but 3 percent of the American population.
190,000 Jews served with the Army.
25,000 Jews served with the Navy.
14,000 Jews served with the Marine Corps.
21,000 Jews served with other branches.
75 percent of the Jewish contingent served with the infantry
cavalry, artillery, engineers, signal corps and aviation; while in the
entire A. E. F. of 4,800,000 only 60 percent served with these hazardous
branches.
Jews in the Marine Corps numbered 14,000. Of these, 30 percent
enlisted AFTER it was announced that the Marines were the shock
,
troops at Chateau Thierry.
1,089 Jews received citations for valor under lire.
723 were conferred by the American command.
287 were conferred by the French command.
33 were conferred by the British command.
46 were conferred by other allied commands.
150 Jews were decorated with the Distinguished Service Cross.
6 Jews were decorated with the Congressional Medal of Honor.
4 Jews were decorated with the French Medaille Militaire,
174 Jews were decorated with the French Croix de Guerre.
3,500 Jews died fighting that democracy might live.
12,000 Jews were wounded,
The Jews of America are again prepared to do their part to uphold
and preserve the Constitution of the United States with its Bill of
Rights that the American democratic way of life may continue tcr ,
flourish.
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NATHAN GILBERT
From his wife, children
and grandchildren
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The Four
Chaplains
There is a story told of the
events aboard a ship—a doomed
ship, an Army transport struck
down by German torpedoes—that
in its grim tragedy and gallant
heroism epitomizes the spirit of
chaplaincy and of the brotherhood
of man.
The story came to light slowly.
A young sailor arrived home from
the wars, and he told a harrowing
tale of the last minutes of the
troopship. As his lifeboat drew
away from the stricken ship, the
picture he saw on deck was in-
delibly etched in his brain.
On the swiftly sinking vessel he
saw four men standing locked arm
in arm and evidently deep in
prayer. He saw them in the gray
light of a cold Atlantic dawn, and
then suddenly the men and the
ship were gone—gone beneath the
icy waves.
The young sailor prayed—pray-
ed for his own safety and for the
souls of those four men, for he
knew they were the four chaplains
of the ship—two Protestants, a
Catholic, and a Jew. He knew, too,
that they had given their lives
willingly so that others might be
saved. They had given their life
preservers to four enlisted men
who had lost their own.
This is the story as told by a
young officer—Lt. John J. Ma-
honey, who had also been on the
ill-fated vessel. This is what Lt.
Mahoney related:
"When the order came to aban-
don ship, I grabbed my parka and
life preserver and ran out on the
promenade deck, only to find that
I had forgotten my gloves. Chap-
lain Goode overheard me swear-
ing at myself for my studpidity.
When he saw me heading back for
my cabin he called after me.
`Don't bother, Mahoney,' be said.
'I have another pair. You can
have these.' He pulled off his
gloves and gave them to me. I
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didn't know at the time that he
had already given away his life
belt to an enlisted man.
And so, bit by bit, this epic story
of self-sacrifice came to light and
is now recorded in the archives
of the War Department. It is al-
ready celebrated in song and story
and repeated by Army men when-
ever the chaplaincy is mentioned.
s these are its heroes: Chap-
nd
la \Clark V. Poling, Protestant
tn .i ler; Chaplain George L. Fox;
Protcrstant minister; Chaplain John
P. Washington, Catholic priest,
and Chaplain Alexader Goode,
rabbi.
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