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 ...

Doris Miller got a hero’s welcome Thursday in his hometown of Waco, exactly 76 years after the Navy mess attendant crossed the color line to defend his ship at Pearl Harbor. More than 200 people ...

The Texas Veterans Hall of Fame award adds to a long list of honors recognizing Doris Miller’s actions during the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. He has not, however, received the nation ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - Petty Officer 3rd Class Doris Miller was honored at a Harbor Day memorial service held by his statue in Bledsoe-Miller Park. Miller’s great nephew, Thomas Bledsoe, said ...

The heroics of Doris “Dorie” Miller, the Black Pearl Harbor veteran who downed as many as six enemy planes with a gun he barely knew how to operate, always makes it into the lesson plan.

Miller, a Navy mess attendant from Waco, Texas, did not let the barriers of segregation hinder his heroism. On Dec. 7, 1941, during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Miller carried wounded ...

About 3,700 miles from Austin, at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, a 22-year-old man from Waco named Doris Miller – nicknamed Dorie, a cook on the USS West Virginia – heard the alarm as several hundred ...

Selfless and sacrifice are the true meanings behind Dorris Miller’s story. In 1941, the Navy cook was below deck when a torpedo struck the USS West Virgina at Pearl Harbor.

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. The ...

His parents learned that he was considered missing in action on Dec. 7, 1943, two years after the Pearl Harbor attack. Austin's link with Miller is a slim but sturdy one.

Dec. 7, 1941, is burned into the minds of older Americans, just as Nov. 22, 1963, and Sept. 11, 2001, are for subsequent generations. Even postwar baby boomers recall Pearl Harbor vividly because ...