Question for you WWII historians: Was there actually a place called Hacksaw Ridge? I don’t recall ever hearing the name even when I was briefly based on Okinawa.
The bloody battle for Okinawa: Veterans recall the luck, grit that got them through
By Matthew M. Burke
Stars and Stripes
Published: August 5, 2015
http://www.stripes.com/news/special-reports/world-war-ii-the-final-chapter/features/the-bloody-battle-for-okinawa-veterans-recall-the-luck-grit-that-got-them-through-1.360127
“One night, after hunkering down with three others a short ways down the slope from Needle Rock, on Hacksaw Ridge, a Japanese grenade landed in the middle of them. The enemy had crawled up to their position under cover of darkness.”