Chapel of Four Chaplains: 100 Years of Heroes 

Just after midnight on Feb. 3, 1943, the United States transport ship U.S.A.T. Dorchester was torpedoed by a German U-Boat and sunk off the coast of Greenland in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. Of the 902 officers, crew, servicemen and civilian workers on board 672 went down with the ship, but not before four U.S. Army Chaplains performed an extraordinary act of self-sacrifice and service. The four - George Fox, Alexander Goode, Clark Poling and John Washington -handed out lifejackets and calmed the men, and when there were no more lifejackets, gave their own lifejackets. Survivors testified that the priest, rabbi and two Protestant ministers then linked arms and prayed on the deck until sinking beneath the waves. (Video by Mark Pynes/PennLive)