On this day in 1941 ...Middle East

Dec. 7, 1941 U.S. Navy poster of Dorie Miller by David Stone Martin Credit: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution) Doris “Dorie” Miller, a mess attendant aboard the battleship USS West Virginia, carried the injured captain and other shipmates to safety during the attack on Pearl Harbor.  When enemy planes swooped down, he stood behind an anti-aircraft gun and began firing, despite no prior training. He became the first Black seaman to receive the Navy Cross for valor, and a Navy recruiting poster featured him with the slogan, “above and beyond the call of duty.”  Before 1943 ended, a torpedo struck his ship, the Liscome Bay, killing Miller and more than 600 oth

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