1942 - Religion

Religion

Father Divine (George Baker) leaves New York and moves to a palatial "heaven" at Philadelphia (see 1916). He will remain there until his death in 1965.

"There are no atheists in foxholes," says chaplain William T. (Thomas) Cummings, 38, at a field service on Bataan Peninsula before its fall to the Japanese April 9. Father Cummings will die of dysentery in 1945 aboard a prison ship jammed with captured troops who have little water or air.