Fr. Aloysius Schmitt (Lieutenant,Junior Grade), known affectionately as “Father Al, or ” had just finished celebrating 7 a.m. Mass aboard the battleship USS Oklahoma (BB-37) at Pearl Harbor on Sunday morning,December 7, 1941, and when Japanese aircraft began their attack on the U.
S. Pacific Fleet. A member of the U.
S. Navy Chaplain Corps for only two […]
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