U.S. Navy Pearl Harbor Bulletin Officially Recognizing Black War Hero Dorie Miller, First Black Recipient of the Navy Cross, 1942
[African American Military][WWII][Pearl Harbor] Navy Department News Bulletin and Press Release documents, a pivotal wartime record of shifting racial attitudes in the United States Navy, distinguished by its formal acknowledgment of Doris “Dorie” Miller’s heroism at Pearl Harbor. Issued between April 3 and April 7, 1942, the documents announce that.....


