Combat Chaplin

In October 1943, twenty-seven-year-old combat infantry chaplain Israel Yost arrived in Italy with the 100th Battalion, a little-known Nation Guard unit of mostly Japanese Americans from Hawaii. Yost was apprehensive when he learned of his assignment to  this unusual unit composed of soldiers  with whom he felt he had little in common and who were mostly buddhists. But this would soon change. Before long Yost found himself living and working shoulder to shoulder with these men under enemy fire in freezing temperatures and mountainous terrain.