Chaplain Makes Jump
With Paratroop Team
Taegu, Korea, April 2 (NC --- Rev. (Capt.) Joseph A; Dunne of New York, U. S. Army Chaplain,, jumped with the paratroopers of the 187th regimental combat 'team, landing at Munsan, about 25 miles northwest of Seoul on Good . Friday morning. ' He landed safely. Jack Burby, United Press correspondent, who also made the jump, told me today he talked with .Father Dunne in
Munsan afterwards.
On Thursday, Father Dunne assisted by Revs. (Lt. Col.) Urban J. Wurm of Toledo and (Capt.) William L. Travers, O.Carm., of Brooklyn, heard the confessions of the paratroopers who were preparing to make the Jump.. ,
I flew on one of the cargo planes carrying the paratroopers in a
mass flight of aircraft to the jump zone. Some of the soldiers availed .
themselves of my presence on the air strip before the takeoff and others
later aboard the plane, to go to confession.
[The Tablet, Brooklyn, NY, 07 Apr 1951, Sat, Page 11] |