United States Navy Chaplain Corps - Yearbook

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kr Memorial Services. Squadron members bow their heads as Chaplain John H. Markley conducts a memorial service for fliers who were shot down by North Korean antiaircraft fire on a night- fighter mission. stad and either Sporrer or Hickey were in the forward aid station, while Tennant was at the regimental collecting and clearing station. The chaplains were constantly on the move. As far as possible it was planned to have a Protestant and a Roman Catholic chaplain available at forward aid stations all the time. On 18 August, with each of the 5th Marines battalions engaged, the chaplains operated as follows: lngvoldstad visited the forward aid station of the lst Battalion, 5th Marines, then that of the 3d Bat- talion, then held a Protestant Service at the artillery Improvisation. camp cot is used as the base of the altar by Chaplain Otto Sporrer as he holds mass for the llth Artillery in a field behind the battlelines in South Korea. United Nations Cemetery, Masan. Flags fly at half-mast where fallen marines and fellow com- rades find their last resting place. unit, and finally moved on to the 2d Battalionls aid station for the night. Sporrer celebrated Mass at the artillery unit and likewise moved from one bat- talion aid station to each of the others. Tennant remained all day and night with the regimental col- lecting and clearing station, while Hickey visited all the aid stations, though staying mostly with that of the 3d Battalion. The Naktong objective was secured on 19 August and the Marine Brigade ordered into Eighth Army reserve. Its bivouac area from 21 to 31 August was a bean patch near Masan, from which the Marines ..7..

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Memorial Services. Chaplain Orlando Ingvoldstad, Jr., is shown holding memorial services at the Army-Marine Corps Cemetery in South Korea at Masan on 24 August 1950. would fight their way around the peninsula and complete their circuit five months later Qfollowing the withdrawal from Chosinj to the identical bean patch.5 The chaplains were now able to conduct funeral and memorial services for the men killed in the first action, that of 7-13 August. Upon the suggestion of the Brigade commander, Brig. Gen. Edward A. Craig, an individual picture was taken of each grave with the appropriate chaplain standing by in bene- diction. These pictures were sent to Headquarters, Marine Corps, in Washington, and after casualty notices had been sent to next of kin, many requests were received from bereaved families for the pictures. On 22 August Chaplain Ingvoldstad wrote to Chaplain Stanton W. Salisbury, Chief of Chaplains: As I'm writing I'm sitting under a shelter in a bean field, itls hot, sticky, and dusty. Shooting is going on in the hills around us, but the activities of our camp are normal, as we are in reserve right now. Shortly we'll probably be in it again. Sporrer is with the Artillery battalion, but also gets up into our aid stations . . . Hickey, Tennant and I have been 5Ibid.,pp. 2o7f. kv -s f 1, A if?':Lr'5- Q5 w3'ffg. , , . . ,W gan.. .,,-3 is , - , - ,-A Q, ., , , ill I D ,L JI'-r A 'Mug A' L ,f-ffdd MV bv .l 4 ,ings-,xirxw-xg, .1 --44. , --fx 'W ,f -Nfl., xviesjv ,pgs If A ,, . , ,L ., , -as . It--X. .ug fm. , .za , , fwzfv. -,ew tw'o.,1 s. ' -'T ' . ' ' ' '1 fQ.f.fSNfr3?i 'W Burial Service. Chaplain William G. Tennant conducts a graveside service. Photographs of such services were sent to the next of kin. working the battalion aid stations, Hickey usually with 3rd Bn., Tennant and I between lst and 2nd. Then we also shift around as the need is. Our battalion aid stations are as close as 100-150 yards from the fighting and at times under fire. I can truthfully say none of our wounded have left the zone of action without being seen by a chaplain. Second Naktong The Marines were involved in a third engagement, 3-5 September, in the same Naktong River area, re- pulsing a desperate Communist attempt to breach the Pusan Perimeterfi Beginning at midnight on the fifth, the Brigade was withdrawn to Pusan, where staging began for what would be the Inchon am- phibious landing. In 1 month the air-ground team had fought 3 difficult battles, suffering 902 cas- ualties, including 9 rnissing in action, 163 deaths and 730 wounded. In addition to the ministry ren- dered the dead and wounded, the chaplains had faith- fully maintained Divine Services. On Sunday, .27 August, for instance, the four chaplains conducted eight services. But, as Ingvoldstad wrote, We,ve been holding services regardless of days, whenever 6 Ibid., chs. XI, XII. 8- 9 3