Ralph Brown: The First Chaplain Honored in WW2

While everyone else ran for cover, Chaplain Ralph Brown drove straight into the bombs, machine gunning, and destruction of Japan’s first air attack on The Philippines.

Brown collected wounded men in his old Pontiac and drove them to the nearby hospital. And then he headed back into the bombing and staffing at least 5 more times, getting wounded men to safety.

For those actions, he became the first chaplain in WW2 to receive the Distinguished Service Cross – the military’s second highest honor.

And that was on Day 1 of the war.

He spent the next 4 months driving the roads and trails of Bataan, serving the American troops attempting to hold back the Japanese advance.

He then survived the Bataan Death March, almost 3 years at Japan’s largest WW2 POW camp, and two friendly-fire ship bombings.

This is the incredible, self-sacrificing story of Chaplain Ralph Brown – a man on a mission from God.

 

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