Jerome A. Dolan, a medical officer with the 8th Cavalry regiment. Emil Kapaun celebrates Mass for Soldiers at Herington Air Base, Kan., circa 1942. It was after Father Kapaun saw the need for ...

KAPAUN AIR STATION, Germany &#8212 ... Air cadets from the United Kingdom are spending a week at Ramstein Air Base and neighboring U.S. military installations as part of an annual summer camp ...

honored the memory and heroism of Chaplain Emil Kapaun in Catholic Mass at Kapaun Air Base in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Many see Chaplain Kapaun as a man who embodied not only the army values but ...

KAPAUN AIR STATION, Germany — The largest ... a ceremony at this small installation a few miles from Ramstein Air Base in southwestern Germany. “I certainly never thought I would be important ...

(photo: Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images; Army image of Father Kapaun, public domain ... North Korea during the Korean War landed at Osan Air Base in South Korea. At the same time in Kansas, hopes ...

The painstaking process in a laboratory at Hickam Air Force Base included using X-rays, dental records and DNA records, Mee said. There’s no question that the remains tested are Kapaun’s.

After a stint as an auxiliary chaplain on a local air base, Kapaun entered training for the army chaplaincy in August 1944. In March 1945 he deployed to the China-Burma-India theater of operations.