The world will now see how Desmond Doss was a hero, something his son always knew. “He was my dad, you love your dad,” he said. “Hacksaw Ridge” is now playing in theaters.

Doss cleared up the confusion by writing a letter to his mother proving he was, in fact, alive. In October 1945, Doss was brought back to the states and had the bullet removed from his shattered arm.

In ‘Hacksaw Ridge,’ Mel Gibson directs Andrew Garfield as Desmond Doss, who joins World War II, but his faith won’t let him use a gun.

NPR movie critic Bob Mondello reviews Hacksaw Ridge, a film about a World War II hero who changed American attitudes about conscientious objectors.

Private Desmond Doss walked into the bloodiest battle of World War II's Pacific theater with nothing to protect himself save for his Bible and his faith in God. A devout Seventh Day Adventist and ...

The Lynchburg VA Clinic on Lakeside Drive has been renamed the Private First Class Desmond T. Doss VA Clinic, honoring the local war hero whose bravery was depicted in the film "Hacksaw Ridge ...

The Hacksaw Ridge hero SAVED 75 lives despite never ... in reality he went down in history with a Congressional Medal of Honor. ... but true story of World War II medic, Desmond T Doss. ...

Since the Congressional Medal of Honor was instituted during the Civil War, only three conscientious objectors have received the United States’ highest military award. One of them, Desmond Doss ...

During the Battle of Okinawa, one of World War II's bloodiest battles, Doss saved the lives of 75 soldiers, earning him the Medal of Honor, two Bronze Stars, and three Purple Hearts.