 Rose was the highest-ranking American killed by enemy fire in the European Theater of Operations during the war.Chaplain Alexander D. Goode, a rabbi, was one of the "Four Chaplains" or "Immortal Chaplains", a name given to honor four US military chaplains who sacrificed their lives to save other soldiers during the sinking of the troop transport by a U-boat off the coast of Newfoundland in February 1943.Goode and the three other chaplains, Methodist, Roman Catholic, and Reformed Church in America, helped to evacuate the ship.