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INDEPENDENT CONSERVATIVE VOICE OF UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA

First Published in 1994

INDEPENDENT CONSERVATIVE VOICE OF
UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA

Four Chaplains Program

The Four Chaplains also referred to as Immortal Chaplains or the Dorchester Chaplains, were four Chaplains who died rescuing civilian and military personnel as the American troop ship SS Dorchester sank on February 1943. This has been referred to as the second-worst sea disaster of World War II.