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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dorie Miller, a Waco native, became the first African American to receive the Navy Cross, the highest honor from that branch of service, for his actions at Pearl Harbor. Nearly two years later, at ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...