Desmond Thomas Doss was a United States Army corporal who served as a combat medic with an infantry company during World War II. He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal twice for efforts in Guam and the Philippines.
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Prior to the onset of World War II, Doss worked as a joiner at a shipyard in Newport News, Virginia.
On April 1, 1942, at Camp Lee, Virginia, he chose military service over a deferral because of his shipyard work.
Doss had intended to continue his carpentry trade after the war, but serious injury to his left arm prevented him from doing so.
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Doss died on March 23, 2006, at his home in Piedmont, Alabama, after being hospitalized for breathing difficulties.
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What happened to Desmond Doss after the war?
He had a lung and five ribs removed, and later, in 1976, he lost his hearing suddenly. Doss moved to Lookout Mountain in northwestern Georgia in the 1950s and built a house in the town of Rising Fawn, where he lived with his wife and their son.
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