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Gen. Smedley D. Butler Detachment Has a Chapel of the Four Chaplains Display at the Springfield Library
The Exhibit honors 4 military Chaplains who sacrificed their lives that others may live during WWII as the USAT Dorchester, sank.
Each year the General Smedley D. Butler Detachment of the Marine Corps League, headquartered in Newtown Square, PA, places educational and patriotic exhibits in libraries and museums. This year the Detachment placed an exhibit devoted to the Chapel of the Four Chaplains. It memorializes four U.S. Army chaplains gave their life preservers to other soldiers on the torpedoed ship the Dorchester, giving up all hope for their own survival.
The photos show the window display at the Springfield library, 70 Powell Road, Springfield. The gentleman locking the exhibit is Hal Boyer, the library's manager.
The Chapel of the Four Chaplains was created to memorialize the four U.S. Army Chaplains who gave up their life jackets and prayed together when their transport ship, the U.S.A.T Dorchester, was torpedoed eighty miles south of Greenland on February 3, 1943. The Chaplains, who gave up their lives for fellow servicemen, came from different faiths and backgrounds.
