Desmond Thomas Doss was a United States Army corporal who served as a combat medic with an infantry company during WWII. He received the Bronze Star Medal twice for efforts in Guam and the Philippines.
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Before World War II, Doss worked as a joiner at a shipyard in Newport News, Virginia.
On April 1, 1942, in Camp Lee, Virginia, he chose military service despite being offered a deferral due to his shipyard work.
Doss hoped to continue his carpentry trade after the war, but a serious injury to his left arm prevented him from doing so.
Doss died on March 23, 2006, in his Piedmont, Alabama, home, after being hospitalized for trouble breathing.
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Frances M. Doss: Who is Desmond Doss second wife?
Doss married Dorothy Pauline Schutte on August 17, 1942, and they had one child, Desmond “Tommy” Doss Jr., born in 1946.
Dorothy died on November 17, 1991, in a car accident, while being driven to the hospital by Desmond. Doss remarried on July 1, 1993, to Frances May Duman.
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