“Somewhere in Europe, in the last years of the Second World War, a young Canadian soldier hiding in the undergrowth watches helplessly as a British patrol walks into a German trap. He could have warned them, but not without jeopardizing his own mission. All he can do is watch as the Germans gun them down. Then he heads off to carry out his orders, fully aware that the odds are 100 to 1 against him.”
The soldier’s orders, his mission, is the main focus of a war story published by Catholic Digest in March 1945 (it was originally published in Mother of Perpetual Help). As Dan Connors, Catholic Digest editor-in-chief, wrote in his introduction to this classic article, “It seems a strange story for a magazine called Mother of Perpetual Help, or Catholic Digest for that matter. But it was a different time and a different conflict. And for us today it’s not just a gripping story, but a tale of the surprising and, for some readers, disturbing ways faith and death come together in war.”
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