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Desmond Doss: Hacksaw Ridge - Early life

Time: 1930s

Place: Lynchburg, Virginia, U.S.

Details: Doss attended the Park Avenue Seventh-day Adventist Church school until the eighth grade and subsequently found a job at the Lynchburg Lumber Company to support his family during the Great Depression.

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