When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, ship's cook third class Dorie Miller, who was aboard the USS West Virginia, bravely went up on deck, fired at the aircraft and carried wounded men to safety. Miller manned an antiaircraft gun, for which he had no training, and continued firing on the enemy until he ran out of ammunition and received the order to abandon ship, Encyclopedia Britannica reports. He was the first African-American recipient of the Navy Cross for valor.
President Donald Trump speaks with Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Michael Selig on Wednesday in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington.
When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, ship's cook third class Dorie Miller, who was aboard the USS West Virginia, bravely went up on deck, fired at the aircraft and carried wounded men to safety. Miller manned an antiaircraft gun, for which he had no training, and continued firing on the enemy until he ran out of ammunition and received the order to abandon ship, Encyclopedia Britannica reports. He was the first African-American recipient of the Navy Cross for valor.
President Donald Trump speaks with Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Michael Selig on Wednesday in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington.
