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Originally Posted by Jacklitsch
I think the Navy is naming it's next aircraft carrier after this hero.
Edit: I'm mistaken. It's the Doris Miller, another African American.
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In Dusty Kleiss's book, he has a photo of him and a few others, including Doris Miller, being decorated by Chester Nimitz a few months after Pearl Harbor. The only high-quality copy I could find online is here:
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthoped...dway-469872292. Unfortunately, Doris Miller did not survive the war; he was killed when the aircraft carrier
Liscome Bay was torpedoed and sunk in late 1943.