Desmond Thomas Doss (February 7, 1919 – March 23, 2006) [1] was a United States Army corporal who served as a combat medic with an infantry company in World War II.

Dec 23, 2025 · Under artillery fire in frozen Belgium, combat medics established battlefield medicine standards still used today.

One of the unsung heroes of World War II was the combat medic. First to answer the call for aid, and often facing the enemy unarmed, he was part of the foundation of the medical system during the war.

Medics in World War II were the front line of battlefield medicine. In the American army, a battalion of some 400 to 500 men typically would have about thirty medics or aidmen; although...

World War II began abruptly for the United States on a quiet Sunday morning in Hawaii. Like all other branches of the military, the U.S. Army Medical Department had to swell its ranks quickly to meet the …

Nov 6, 2021 · The young World War II medic who singlehandedly saved the lives of 75 American soldiers on the Maeda Escarpment of Okinawa in 1945 would say that he only did what was right. …

Jun 4, 2024 · D-Day medics and physicians worked heroically to save as many wounded as they could on June 6, 1944, as the Allies began taking back Europe from the Nazis in World War II.

Jun 21, 2015 · The stories of the medics and war journalists in the First and then Second World War are often buried under the heroic tales of the troops, but these medics faced equal peril and faced same …

During World War II, over 70,000 men were designated conscientious objectors, mostly men whose religious beliefs made them opposed to war. Some refused to serve, but 25,000 joined the US armed …

Jun 6, 2017 · They were the combat medics of World War II. Edwin "Doc" Pepping, left, and Albert "Al" Mampre served as combat medics attached to Easy Company, 2nd Battalion of the 506th Parachute …