USS Doris Miller will honor a Black Pearl Harbor hero and key figure in the rise of the civil rights movement. Miller, a sharecropper's son from Waco, Texas, was 22 years old when he created history.

USS Doris Miller (CVN-81) will be the fourth Ford-class aircraft carrier, following USS Ford, USS John F. Kennedy, and USS Enterprise. The Navy will buy about eleven Ford class carriers, replacing ...

Mess Attendant 2nd Class Doris Miller stands at attention after being awarded the Navy Cross medal for for his actions aboard the battleship USS West Virginia (BB-48) during the Dec. 7, 1941 ...

Navy Acting Secretary Thomas B. Modly said the USS Doris Miller will serve as a reminder of the nation's pursuit for justice and as a tribute to its namesake. Miller, ...

Construction has not yet begun on the USS Doris Miller; it will be seven or eight years before the ship gets into the water. It will be expected to sail the world for 50 years.

Doris Miller was stationed on the USS 'West Virginia' when Pearl Harbor was attacked. Despite being prohibited from gunnery training due to his race, Miller ended up saving an untold number of lives.

The USS Doris Miller will come online in 2026: It's the 1st aircraft carrier named for an African American and, for his heroism at Pearl Harbor, the 1st time an ...

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 ...

The accolades didn’t stop there: The Destroyer escort USS Miller was commissioned in 1973, and the USS Doris Miller, a Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier, will soon be put into service in ...

The USS Gerald R. Ford is the latest in a line of aircraft carriers from the United States, ... is expected to launch in 2028, and 2032 should see the launch of the USS Doris Miller (CVN-81).