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 weapon
• Two Bronze Stars with V device earned in Guam and the Philippines
• Lowering an estimated 75 to 100 wounded men down the Maeda Escarpment
• His grenade and sniper wounds and the improvised rifle-stock splint
• The 1945 Medal of Honor and decades of illness and hardship after the war