# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/desmond-doss
# Generated: 2026-09-01T09:19:56.453Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Desmond Thomas Doss was born February 7, 1919, and enlisted as a combat medic with a U.S. Army infantry company in World War II. His convictions kept him from touching a gun, which made him an oddity and a target for suspicion. He earned two Bronze Stars for actions on Guam and in the Philippines, then came Okinawa: working alone under fire, he pulled an estimated 75 wounded men to safety in the Battle of Okinawa, an act that earned him the Medal of Honor in 1945 — the first ever awarded to a conscientious objector. Two others, Thomas W. Bennett and Joseph G. LaPointe Jr., would receive it posthumously during Vietnam. Doss died March 23, 2006, but his story found a second life in the 2004 documentary The Conscientious Objector and the 2016 film Hacksaw Ridge, where Andrew Garfield played him to an Oscar-winning production.