WWII hero Doris Miller will get a ford class aircraft carrier named in his honor, USS Doris Miller [CVN-81]. Congresswoman Eddie Bernice-Johnson and Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas B. Modly attend the Naming Ceremony.
Something else may interest you: “African-American sailors had been limited to serving as Mess Attendants for nearly two decades.”
Header Photo By: U.S. Defense News | Inset Photo By: U.S. Navy Archives
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