| 词条 | Clark V. Poling |
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|name= Clark V. Poling |birth_date= {{birth date|1910|8|7}} |death_date= {{death date and age|1943|2|3|1910|8|7}} |birth_place= Columbus, Ohio |death_place= {{SS|Dorchester||2}}, Atlantic Ocean |placeofburial= |placeofburial_label= Place of burial |image= Clark V. Poling.png |caption= Clark V. Poling |nickname= |allegiance= {{flagicon|USA}} United States of America |serviceyears= 1941 to 1943 |rank= Chaplain lieutenant |branch= {{flagicon|USA}} United States Army |commands= |unit= |battles= World War II |awards=Chaplain's Medal for Heroism{{·}}Distinguished Service Cross{{·}}Purple Heart |laterwork= }} Clark Vandersall Poling (August 7, 1910 – February 3, 1943) was a minister in the Reformed Church in America and a lieutenant in the United States Army. He was one of the Four Chaplains who gave their lives to save other soldiers during the sinking of the troop transport {{SS|Dorchester||2}} during World War II. LifePoling was born in Columbus, Ohio to Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling (1884-1968), an Evangelical minister, and Susan Jane Vandersall (1882-1918). He was raised in Auburndale, Massachusetts where he attended Whitney Public School. He had three siblings, Daniel, Mary and Elizabeth. His mother died in 1918; his father remarried in 1919 and converted to the Baptist faith, becoming an ordained minister. The family moved to Poughkeepsie, New York and Poling attended Oakwood School where he excelled on the football team.[1] After graduation he attended Hope College in Michigan and then Rutgers University in New Jersey, graduating in 1933. He then attended Yale Divinity School, graduating in 1936. He then took up a position as pastor of the First Reformed Church in Schenectady, New York where he settled with his wife Elizabeth Jung and their son Clark, Jr. ("Corky"). A daughter, Susan Elizabeth, was born three months after his death.[1] At the outbreak of war in 1941, Poling immediately volunteered for service as an Army chaplain in the footsteps of his father, who had served as a chaplain during World War I.[1] He initially served in Mississippi with a transport regiment. DeathIn late 1942, Poling was transferred to Camp Myles Standish in Taunton, Massachusetts and attended Chaplains School at Harvard University. There he met fellow chaplains George L. Fox, Alexander D. Goode and John P. Washington. In January 1943, the chaplains embarked on board the Dorchester, which was transporting over 900 soldiers to the United Kingdom via Greenland. On February 2, 1943 the German submarine U-223 spotted the convoy on the move and closed with the ships, firing a torpedo which struck the Dorchester shortly after midnight. Hundreds of men packed the decks of the rapidly sinking ship and scrambled for the lifeboats. Several of the lifeboats had been damaged and the four chaplains began to organize frightened soldiers. They distributed life jackets from a locker; when the supply of life jackets ran out, each of the chaplains gave theirs to other soldiers. When the last lifeboats were away, the chaplains prayed with those unable to escape the sinking ship. 27 minutes after the torpedo struck, the Dorchester disappeared below the waves with 672 men still aboard. The last anyone saw of the four chaplains, they were standing on the deck, arms linked and praying together.[2] RemembranceThe four chaplains were all awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and the Purple Heart and received national acclaim for their courage and self-sacrifice. A chapel in their honor was dedicated on February 3, 1951 by President Harry S. Truman at Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia. The Four Chaplains' Medal was established by act of Congress on July 14, 1960, and was presented posthumously to their next of kin by Secretary of the Army Wilber M. Brucker at Ft. Myer, Virginia on January 18, 1961.[3] Poling is honored with a feast day along with the other Four Chaplains on the liturgical of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America on February 3. The high point of the town of Deering, NH, formerly known as Wolf Hill (1570 ft.), was renamed Clark Summit in Poling's honor, and a memorial plaque was placed at the summit outlook. "Located on what was once family land, Clark thought this was a peaceful place and would often go there to reflect on big decisions in his life. In fact, it was at Wolf Hill's summit that Clark decided to become a minister." [4] References1. ^1 2 {{cite web |title=Clark V. Poling |publisher=The Four Chaplains Memorial Foundation |url=http://www.fourchaplains.org/poling.html |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130201072418/http://www.fourchaplains.org/poling.html |archivedate=2013-02-01 |df= }} 2. ^{{cite web |title=The Saga of the Four Chaplains |publisher=The Four Chaplains Memorial Foundation |url=http://www.fourchaplains.org/story.html |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080207070224/http://www.fourchaplains.org/story.html |archivedate=2008-02-07 |df= }} 3. ^{{cite web |title=Federal Military Medals and Decorations |publisher=Foxfall Medals |url=http://www.foxfall.com/fmc-fcm.htm }} 4. ^http://www.clarksummitalpacas.com/about_us.html External links
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