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Record W7116676498 · doi:10.65589/001c.143275

The D-Day Chaplain Who Died Twice

2025· article· en· W7116676498 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Nicholas Stavlund

Bibliographic record

VenueMilitary Chaplaincy Review · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicMormonism, Religion, and History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHonorGermanInfantryBattlefieldWorld War IIQuarter (Canadian coin)

Abstract

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In early June 2025, I went with fewer than a hundred fellow paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division to Normandy, France to commemorate the 81st anniversary of Operation Overlord and the D-Day invasion.Dozens of ceremonies take place across the region each June commemorating various battles and heroic actions of American soldiers.Two of those ceremonies honor the life and death of Chaplain Ignatius Maternowski.To those in the Normandy region of France he is known simply as the "D-Day Chaplain."A native of Holyoke, Massachusetts and a graduate of St. Francis High School in Athol Springs, New York, he was a paratrooper, chaplain, and Franciscan priest assigned to the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment in World War II.Eighty-one years ago, he jumped into the darkness without a weapon and assembled with small groups of fellow paratroopers near a hamlet of homes and buildings called Gueutteville in the town of Picauville.On the drop zone, he ministered to the wounded and dying in a nearby crashed glider. 1 Gueutteville occupies a single, narrow road no more than a quarter mile long, with stone homes and storehouses lining either side.This humble street became a battlefield where American paratroopers made their stand against German forces.Before sunrise, it became the place where Chaplain Maternowski would lose his life.Locals in France often describe what they heard about the "D-Day Chaplain" from their parents and grandparents.With American casualties mounting in those early hours of the operation, Chaplain Maternowski decided to walk the narrow street that bisected Gueutteville to find the German aid station and doctor.He sought to create a single aid station to treat the wounded and dying from both sides.One aid station for all wounded personnel, regardless of their uniform.Somehow, he safely navigated the narrow road and found the German aid station.Even more strangely, the German doctor agreed to Chaplain Maternowski's plan.Yet on his walk back down the narrow street, Chaplain (Major) Nicholas Stavlund Chaplain (Major) Nicholas Stavlund is an Anglican Priest.He is a Distinguished Military Graduate of Western Michigan University and holds degrees from Fuller Theological Seminary (M.Div.) and Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (D.Min.).He currently serves as Deputy Division Chaplain, 82nd Airborne Division.Previous assignments include Brigade Chaplain, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade; Unit Chaplain, United States Army Special Operations Command; Group Chaplain, 1st Special Warfare Training Group (Airborne); Battalion Chaplain, 2-325th Airborne Infantry Regiment and Special Troops Battalion, 1st Theater Sustainment Command.Prior to military service, he served at a local church and owned a nonprofit community-based ministry called CrossFit Chaparral.Our Lady of the Angels Province, "In Memoriam: Fr.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.028
Threshold uncertainty score0.094

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0110.002
Scholarly communication0.0030.002
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0020.010
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0280.008

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.017
GPT teacher head0.237
Teacher spread0.220 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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