Private Desmond Doss walked into the bloodiest battle of ... The fighting took place on the hellish Maeda Escarpment in April 1945. The battlefield, located on top of a sheer 400-foot cliff ...

The 2016 movie “Hacksaw Ridge” tells the story of Desmond Doss, a conscientious objector who earned the Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroism as an unarmed medic during the ...

Desmond Doss is credited with saving 75 soldiers during one of the bloodiest battles of World War II in the Pacific — and he did it without ever carrying a weapon. The battle at Hacksaw Ridge ...

Doss rescued at least 75 soldiers wounded on the battlefield in Okinawa. Read Doss' Medal of Honor citation provided by the Desmond Doss Council, the group committed to preserving his story ...

Andrew Garfield stars as Desmond Doss in director Mel Gibson's "Hacksaw Ridge." (Mark Rogers/Lionsgate) I can guarantee I will not spoil the ending of the acclaimed film, "Hacksaw Ridge," based on ...

Andrew Garfield puts in a very strong performance as the conscientious objector Desmond Doss (Picture: Lionsgate) Hacksaw Ridge begins with a shot of dead soldiers lying on the battlefield and a ...

Hacksaw Ridge was directed by Mel Gibson and stars Andrew Garfield as combat medic Desmond Doss. Large parts of the film's first half focus on Doss' earlier life, from the courting of his wife ...

On savage battlefields far from home, Desmond Doss, Robert Patterson and Donald Ballard wove an uncommon thread. All three defeated humankind’s inherent desire for self-preservation, to avoid ...