The ship will be named in honor of Doris Miller ... Chester Nimitz awards the Navy Cross medal to Mess Attendant 2nd Class Doris Miller for his actions aboard the battleship USS West Virginia ...

Mess Attendant Doris “Dorie” Miller manned an anti-aircraft gun ... D.C. – Today (March 25), on National Medal of Honor Day, Congressman Kweisi Mfume (MD-07) announced the introduction ...

Since April 19, 1942, thousands have requested that the U.S. Navy recommend Doris Miller for the Medal of Honor. It is never too late to do the right thing. The president’s bold acknowledgement ...

World War II Victory medal and a combat action ribbon. And in 2020, the Navy announced a Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier will be named in Miller’s honor. The keel of the USS Doris Miller ...

Waco, TX (FOX 44) — The Texas Veterans Hall of Fame (TVHOF) presented their Medal of Valor to the Doris Miller VA Medical Center in honor of Miller’s service to the nation and to Texas.

In addition to advocacy for the Medal of Honor, the family has made significant strides in raising public awareness of Doris Miller’s heroic actions, Bledsoe said. “We collaborated with ...

Of men like Doris “Dorie” Miller. The son of Texas sharecroppers ... Sixteen people were awarded the Medal of Honor, the U.S. military’s highest honor, for their actions at Pearl Harbor ...

Dec. 7, 2024, marks the 83rd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, a day etched in the annals of American history. Amid the chaos of that fateful day, a young African American Navy mess ...

At Waco’s Pearl Harbor Day remembrance ceremony Thursday, Doris Miller’s family members called for a letter-writing campaign to President Joe Biden to encourage the Medal of Honor for their ...

In 2011, the National Board of the NAACP passed a resolution requesting the Medal Of Honor for Doris (Dorie) Miller. Mrs. Thomas requests the Medal of Honor for the following Black Veterans ...