Mess Attendant First Class Doris Miller 3561235 KIA

Mess Attendant First Class Doris Miller 3561235 US Navy KIA. He is the son of Coney Miller and Henrietta Miller of Rt. 1, Box 161, Waco, Texas. Doris Miller was born on October 12, 1919, and attended Moore High school. He entered the US Navy, on September 16, 1939, at the age of 19 he trained in Norfolk, Virginia.

 On December 7, 1941 at Pearl Harbor, “while at the side of Captain Mervyn Sharp Bennion on the bridge of the battleship U.S.S. WEST VIRGINIA (BB-48), Mess Attendant First Class Doris Miller, despite enemy strafing and bombing and in the face of a serious fire, assisted in moving his Captain, who had been mortally wounded, to a place of greater safety, and later manned and operated a machine gun directed at … Japanese attacking aircraft until ordered to leave the bridge.” Nearly 2 years after he earned the Navy Cross at Pearl Harbor, Mess Attendant First Class Miller was serving on the escort carrier U.S.S. Liscome Bay (CVE-56), when it was sunk by a Japanese submarine on November 24, 1943. MAFC Doris Miller died at the age of 24. He earned the Navy Cross, The Purple Heart Medal (PHM) the Combat Action Ribbon, the American Campaign Medal, the American Defense Medal, the Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO) Medal, and the World War Two Victory Medal.