Last week I posted on Father Francis Duffy who served as chaplain of the Fighting 69th in World War I. In World War II there was another Father Duffy, John E. Duffy, also an army chaplain.
John E. Duffy fought in World War I in the Rainbow division, the same division in which Father Francis Duffy served. After being ordained to the priesthood on June 28, 1928, he served as a teacher at Saint Wendelin’s in Fostoria, Ohio.
Father Duffy rejoined the army as a chaplain in 1933. During the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in 1942, Father Duffy, then a major, was chaplain of the North Luzon Force, and then of the First Philippines Corp. Father Duffy was a down to earth priest with a sardonic sense of humor. He used to tell the troops: “May the Good Lord take a liking to you, but not too soon!”.
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