Doris “Dorie” Miller was a fullback for the Moore High School football team, the son of a sharecropper, and during the Battle of Pearl Harbor, he also became the first black man to win the Navy Cross for his heroism in battle.
in the Navy in 1939 as a Mess Attendant, Third Class, the only rank permitted for black men at the time.
That morning, as Japanese planes soared overhead, delivering a fiery death to thousands of Americans, Miller ran to his station on the West Virginia only to find it had already been destroyed. Because he was a large, powerful man, he was then ordered to turn his attention to taking wounded sailors off the ship.
When no one came to man the guns, though, Miller jumped in and began taking aim at the Japanese planes buzzing overhead. In his remarks, Nimitz praised Miller, saying, “This marks the first time in this conflict that such high tribute has been made in the Pacific Fleet to a member of his race, and I’m sure that the future will see others similarly honored for brave acts.”
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