"Hacksaw Ridge," the Mel Gibson-directed war ... Doss was part of the American squadron tasked with securing the Maeda Escarpment during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. Rather than rack up a ...

Yet Doss will prove his many Army macho mockers wrong by single-handedly saving the lives of some 75 wounded soldiers stranded on the Maeda escarpment (Hacksaw Ridge) during the ferocious 1945 ...