BURLINGTON, Vt. - Max E. Wall, a popular Vermont rabbi who worked the front lines of European battlefields as a Jewish chaplain, has died. He was 93.

Wall died of lung cancer on Tuesday, his family said.

Wall was born in Poland in 1915. His family came to the United States nearly six years later on Independence Day.

He completed undergraduate work at Yeshiva University in New York City. He stayed in New York graduate work at the Jewish Theological Seminary he was ordained a rabbi.

During World War II, he spent time near German battlefields in a jeep bearing the Star of David.

In Burlington, Wall became known for taking an Orthodox congregation into a Conservative one.