Chappie World War II Diary of a Combat Chaplain

From their initial, intense training, friendships were born and a special bonding of the unit began. Over the next three years that bond strengthen as these combat engineers found themselves supporting the troops on the front-lines of almost every major battle: from the shores of North Africa, across the countryside of Sicily, onto the beaches of Omaha, bridging the Rhine, fighting through the forest of Belgium and Germany, and moving into Czechoslovakia. Writing before, afterwards, and in the midst of battles, this army chaplain left us a compelling eye-witness account of the everyday joys, humor, and tragedies of these ordinary men who found themselves being thrust into the extraordinary situations on the battlefields of WWII.