29 April 1909 A.D. Birth of Chaplain A.J. Dieffenbacher—Presbyterian Army Chaplain, & Combat Casualty of D-Day. Took a fatal hit from an artillery round, 5 Jul 1944
29 April 1909 A.D. Birth of Chaplain A.J. Dieffenbacher—Presbyterian Army Chaplain, & Combat Casualty of D-Day. Took a fatal hit from an artillery round, 5 Jul 1944. The PCA historian tell the story. Myers, David T. “A Casualty of D-Day.” This Day in Presbyterian History. N.d. http://www.thisday.pcahistory.org/2014/04/april-29/ . Apr 29, 2014. A Casualty of D-Day The following account comes from THE INDEPENDENT BOARD BULLETIN, Vol. 10, no. 10 (October 1944): 4-7. This was (and is) the newsletter of the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions . FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH In the falling of the Reverend Arthur Johnston Dieffenbacher on the battlefields of Normandy, July 5, 1944, the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions has lost its first and one of its best missionaries by death. Few details are known even at this writing but in Arthur Dieffenbacher’s passing his family, the Boar...