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Doss on top of the Maeda Escarpment, May 4, 1945. After the war, Doss turned down many requests for books and film versions of his actions, because he was wary of his life, wartime experiences, and Seventh-day Adventist beliefs being portrayed inaccurately or sensationally.
The Battle of Okinawa (Japanese: 沖縄戦, Hepburn: Okinawa-sen), codenamed Operation Iceberg, [27]: 17 was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army.
Doss on top of the Maeda Escarpment, May 4, 1945. Doss chose military service, despite being offered a deferment because of his shipyard work, [9] on April 1, 1942, at Camp Lee, Virginia. [10] He was sent to Fort Jackson in South Carolina for training with the reactivated 77th Infantry Division. Meanwhile, his brother Harold served aboard the ...
Shaded and colored image from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission—shows an elevation model of New Zealand's Alpine Fault running about 500 km (300 mi) long. The escarpment is flanked by a chain of hills squeezed between the fault and the mountains of New Zealand's Southern Alps.
2016 Hollywood film Hacksaw Ridge depicts the story of Desmond Doss, a Seventh-Day Adventist medic who exhibited extraordinary bravery in the Pacific Theatre during World War II, including single-handedly saving the lives of at least 75 wounded American soldiers in one night under heavy enemy fire on Maeda Escarpment Okinawa, for which he was ...
Mahiro Maeda (前田 真宏, born 1963), artist, writer and director of anime; Michiko Maeda (前田 通子, born 1934), film and television actress; Mitsuyo Maeda (前田 光世, 1878–1941), judoka, fundamental to the creation of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu; Miyu Maeda (前田 美優, born 1996), Japanese table tennis player
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