Remembering the Four Chaplains and Their Ultimate Sacrifice

Archival material is displayed before a Mass to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the deaths of four chaplains on the USAT Dorchester, at St. Stephen’s Church in Kearny, N.J., Feb. 4, 2018. On Feb. 3, 1943, the military transport ship carrying 902 American servicemen and civilian workers, was torpedoed by a German submarine about 100 miles off the cost of Greenland. (Stephanie Keith/The New York Times)