The author, John F. Wukovits, is a renowned military historian who melds rigorous research with expert storytelling resulting in an inspiring and richly detailed narrative that reveals the challenges that these religious — priests along with some brothers and sisters of Notre Dame’s Congregation of Holy Cross — faced.
Historian provides riveting account of WWII chaplains from Notre Dame
Iowa priest honored posthumously for heroism as chaplain at Pearl Harbor
On Dec. 7, relatives of the first chaplain, Father Aloysius Schmitt, to die in World War II accepted the Silver Star on his behalf 76 years to the day after he died saving 12 sailors during the Pearl Harbor attack.