Hacksaw Ridge : the True Story of Desmond Doss
Title | Hacksaw Ridge : the True Story of Desmond Doss PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald Kruk |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017-05-14 |
Genre | Medal of Honor |
ISBN | 9781546685036 |
According to Doss's account in a documentary film titled "The Contentious Objector", as he rescued soldiers one-by-one, he breathed into the air with each go-around, "Lord, please help me get one more."The modest man of faith claims to have saved 50 wounded soldiers from certain death. His comrades claim that he saved 100. President Harry S. Truman presented him with the Congressional Medal of Honor upon his return to the United States, for his heroics on Okinawa, and the citation credits him with saving 75 lives, splitting the difference."From a human standpoint, I shouldn't be here to tell the story," said Doss in an interview with the Richmond Times-Dispatch. "No telling how many times the Lord has spared my life." During World War II, 16,112,556 American soldiers served their country and the cause of the Allies, and only 43 received the Medal of Honor. Doss, who held a powerful allegiance to Christ, and was a devoted member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, became the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. military's highest honor. Today, he is one of two conscientious objectors to have received it.
Redemption at Hacksaw Ridge
Title | Redemption at Hacksaw Ridge PDF eBook |
Author | Booton Herndon |
Publisher | Remnant Publications |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2016-11-07 |
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Hacksaw Ridge
Title | Hacksaw Ridge PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald Kruk |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Medal of Honor |
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According to Doss's account in a documentary film titled "The Contentious Objector", as he rescued soldiers one-by-one, he breathed into the air with each go-around, "Lord, please help me get one more."The modest man of faith claims to have saved 50 wounded soldiers from certain death. His comrades claim that he saved 100. President Harry S. Truman presented him with the Congressional Medal of Honor upon his return to the United States, for his heroics on Okinawa, and the citation credits him with saving 75 lives, splitting the difference."From a human standpoint, I shouldn't be here to tell the story," said Doss in an interview with the Richmond Times-Dispatch. "No telling how many times the Lord has spared my life."During World War II, 16,112,556 American soldiers served their country and the cause of the Allies, and only 43 received the Medal of Honor. Doss, who held a powerful allegiance to Christ, and was a devoted member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, became the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. military's highest honor. Today, he is one of two conscientious objectors to have received it.
Hero of Hacksaw Ridge
Title | Hero of Hacksaw Ridge PDF eBook |
Author | Booton Herndon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2016-10 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781629131542 |
Desmond Doss
Title | Desmond Doss PDF eBook |
Author | Frances May Doss |
Publisher | Pacific Press Publishing Association |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Biography |
ISBN | 9780816321247 |
Infantry men who once ridiculed and scoffed at Desmond's simple faith and refusal to carry a weapon owed their lives to him. In the midst of a fierce firefight on Okinawa that felled approximately 75 men from the 1st Battalion, Private Doss refused to seek cover and carried his stricken comrades to safety one by one. This and other heroic acts earned him the highest honor America could bestow on one of her soldiers--the Medal of Honor.
Redemption at Hacksaw Ridge: The Gripping Story That Inspired the Movie
Title | Redemption at Hacksaw Ridge: The Gripping Story That Inspired the Movie PDF eBook |
Author | Booton Herndon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016-10 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781629131559 |
"The gripping true story that inspired the movie."
Liberty Lady
Title | Liberty Lady PDF eBook |
Author | Pat DiGeorge |
Publisher | |
Pages | 514 |
Release | 2016-11-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780998257013 |
LIBERTY LADY is the true story of a WWII bomber and its crew forced to land in neutral Sweden during the Eighth Air Force's first large-scale daylight bombing raid on Berlin. 1st Lt. Herman Allen was interned and began working for his country's espionage agency, the OSS, with instructions to befriend a businessman suspected of selling secrets to the Germans. Soon Herman fell in love with a beautiful Swedish-American secretary working for the OSS, their courtship unfolding amid the glamour and intrigue of wartime Stockholm. As Swedish newspapers trumpeted one of the biggest spy scandals of the war, two of the main protagonists walked down the aisle in a storybook wedding presided over by the nephew of the King of Sweden.