Emil Kapaun celebrates Mass for Soldiers at Herington Air Base, Kan., circa 1942. It was after Father Kapaun saw the need for military chaplains while serving at the Herington Air Base that he ...

KAPAUN AIR STATION, Germany — It’s not a typical summer camp. There’s digging holes with a bulldozer, trying on bomb suits, eating field ration meals and carrying fellow teenagers on a litter.

Army Lueteinient Colonel Matt Pawlikoski, a chaplain from the 21st Theater Sustainment Command, explains to us why Chaplain Kapaun is his hero. Chaplain of Honor (Short Version) RELATED STORIES ...

Retired Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force Kaleth O. Wright claps after he helped unveil the sign that names the airman leadership school after him during a ceremony at Kapaun Air Station in ...

PILSEN, Kan. — On July 27, a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane carrying more than 55 cases of remains of U.S. servicemen who died and were buried in North Korea during the Korean War landed at ...

Kapaun was among 848 unidentified soldiers returned to the U.S. as part of Operation Glory, ... The painstaking process to identify remains, in a laboratory at Hickam Air Force Base, ...

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.