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Howell Forgy 1908–83
American naval chaplain 

  1. Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
    at Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941, while Forgy moved along a line of sailors passing ammunition by hand to the deck
    in New York Times 1 November 1942; later the title of a song by Frank Loesser, 1942