Desmond Thomas Doss was a United States Army corporal who served as a combat medic with an infantry company in World War II. He was twice awarded the Bronze Star Medal for actions in Guam and the Philippines. Doss further distinguished himself in the Battle of Okinawa by saving 75 men, becoming the only conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor for his actions during the war. His life has been the subject of books, the documentary The Conscientious Objector, and the 2016 film Hacksaw Ridge.
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Desmond Thomas Doss was a United States Army corporal who served as a combat medic with an infantry company in World War II. He was twice awarded the Bronze Star Medal for actions in Guam and the Philippines. Doss further distinguished himself in the Battle of Okinawa by saving 75 men, becoming the only conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor for his actions during the war. His life has been the subject of books, the documentary The Conscientious Objector, and the 2016 film Hacksaw Ridge. His mother raised him as a devout Seventh-day Adventist and instilled Sabbath-keeping, nonviolence, and a vegetarian lifestyle in his upbringing. After the war, Doss initially planned to continue his career in carpentry, but extensive damage to his left arm made him unable to do so. After an overdose of antibiotics rendered him completely deaf in 1976, he was given 100% disability; he was able to regain his hearing after receiving a cochlear implant in 1988.
He died on March 23, 2006, at his home in Piedmont, Alabama, and was buried on April 3, 2006. He had one child, Desmond \”Tommy\” Doss Jr., born in 1946. His wife Dorothy Pauline Schutte died on November 17, 1991 in a car accident. Doss remarried on July 1, 1993, to Frances May Duman. His brother Harold served aboard the USS Lindsey. His father was a carpenter and his mother was a homemaker and shoe factory worker. His sister Audrey and younger brother Harold both served in the Korean War. He is survived by his wife Dorothy and two children, Tommy and Frances May. He also has a son, Desmond Doss III, who was born in 1942 and a daughter, Audrey Doss, who died in 2006.
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