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“The platoon leader had fallen into a slight depression and the enemy machine gun bullets were going over him, however, when Tom crawled out of the CP and toward Roberts he was exposed. I hoped he would make it, but then I saw a bullet hit him, followed by a Marine bazooka blast to take the sniper out that had shot him. Without thought, I found myself crawling over the berm and crouching beside the Corpsman. He was alive, though gravely wounded, so I stayed flat and began to drag him back to the CP.There were bullets hitting all around, but the men in the CP were doing the best they could to give us cover. I finally reached the berm and found two Marines waiting to pull Tom over and into the protection of the CP. Well, I thought, one had been brought back, why not try for the other one. “Oh, Father, please give me strength and cover me and Roberts with your grace,” I prayed.” How had Chaplain John Brock arrived at this dangerous position in the Battle of Saipan in 1944? After all, not long before he had been the pastor of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Welton, Texas. And then his beloved wife Janey had died, and he wanted to get away to mourn. That led him to U.S. Navy Chaplaincy school in 1943, and from there to the USS Maxwell, an APA Troop Transport Loaded with Marines headed to war in the Pacific Ocean. Would he survive as a Combat Chaplain?
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