The U.S. Navy’s Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers are the largest and most technologically advanced warships ever built, ...

A future U.S. Navy aircraft carrier will be named after Doris Miller, who was serving as a ship's cook during the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941.

Doris Miller was stationed on the USS 'West Virginia' when Pearl Harbor was attacked. Despite being prohibited from gunnery training due to his race, Miller ended up saving an untold number of lives.

The generation that lived through World War II needs no reminder of Pearl Harbor Day. Dec. 7, 1941, is burned into the minds of older Americans, just as Nov. 22, 1963, and Sept. 11, 2001, are for ...

USS Doris Miller will honor a Black Pearl Harbor hero and key figure in the rise of the civil rights movement. Miller, a sharecropper's son from Waco, Texas, was 22 years old when he created history.

Mess Attendant 2nd Class Doris Miller receives the Navy Cross from Adm. Chester W. Nimitz at a ceremony held on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Enterprise at Pearl Harbor, 27 May 1942.

Admiral Chester Nimitz, the Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet, pins Navy Cross on Doris "Dorie" Miller, at ceremony on board the USS Enterprise on May 27, 1942.(Courtesy / National Archives ...

As Pearl Harbor Day approaches, we remember Doris "Dorie" Miller, a hero whose name was given to a center in Rosewood Park. News Sports Hookem.com Austin360 Opinion Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper ...

Miller was born in Waco, Texas – and his first name was actually Doris. Doris "Dorie" Miller. The name, said Haven, came from Miller's mother: "Grandmother thought she was having a girl.

Doris Miller family member Desare Ray Allen lays a wreath at the base of Miller’s statue Wednesday during the Pearl Harbor Day ceremony. Rod Aydelotte photos, Tribune-Herlad ...

Sadly, Dorie Miller did not survive the war. Along with about 600 other crew members, as well as dozens of officers, he went down with the USS Liscome Bay when it was torpedoed by a Japanese ...

Doris Miller, a Waco-born World War II hero who sprung into action 77 years ago during the attack on Pearl Harbor by manning a machine gun and dragging his U.S.