Desmond Doss: The Unarmed Medic Who Won the Medal of Honor

Desmond Doss volunteered for World War II combat as a conscientious objector who refused to carry a weapon, serving as a medic driven by his Seventh-day Adventist faith.This episode follows his fierce clashes with his own unit, his astonishing heroics at Hacksaw Ridge on Okinawa, and the lifelong physical toll of his service.Tearing up a legal draft deferment to serve without a weaponTwo Bronze Stars with V device earned in Guam and the PhilippinesLowering an estimated 75 to 100 wounded men down the Maeda EscarpmentHis grenade and sniper wounds and the improvised rifle-stock splintThe 1945 Medal of Honor and decades of illness and hardship after the war