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Desmond Doss Steeled by Courage at Okinawa Rest of the Story
Paul Harvey recounts Private First Class Desmond T. Doss of the 77th Infantry Division who on Okinawa single handedly saved wounded soldiers during May 1945. Doss avoided firing a weapon as a Seventh Day Adventist and earned the Medal of Honor for risking life to rescue comrades despite ferocious enemy fire.
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