“A-Bomb” Chaplain Regretted His World War II Role
Father George Zabelka was a Catholic Chaplain with the US Army Air Forces in 1945. He was stationed on Tinian Island, and he was the Chaplain for the aircrew who dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
After leaving the military the next year, Zabelka ultimately became a pacifist.
In 1980, he gave an interview in which he described Read more