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Navy to name a ship after Doris Miller

Dayton3 said:
A real carrier or one of those amphibs that happen to carry aircraft? Though it is no doubt deserved, there were tens of thousands of soldiers, sailors, and airmen in World War Two who were undoubtedly just as heroic.
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Amphibious assault ship. Though those would be mainline aircraft carriers in any other navy.
 
Harshaw said:
Amphibious assault ship. Though those would be mainline aircraft carriers in any other navy.
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true but when I think of "U.S." and "carrier" I inevitably think of supercarriers.
 
Doris Day should get one too. :mrgreen:
 
apdst said:
It's about time Dorie got his own boat.

Navy to name aircraft carrier for Pearl Harbor hero Doris Miller - U.S. - Stripes
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I just saw that and it is very cool. I really like navy ships named after exceptional navy people.

Dayton3 said:
A real carrier or one of those amphibs that happen to carry aircraft? Though it is no doubt deserved, there were tens of thousands of soldiers, sailors, and airmen in World War Two who were undoubtedly just as heroic.
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Ford class, so newest carrier, not amphibious.
 
Dayton3 said:
A real carrier or one of those amphibs that happen to carry aircraft? Though it is no doubt deserved, there were tens of thousands of soldiers, sailors, and airmen in World War Two who were undoubtedly just as heroic.
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Both are "real" carriers, but the USS Miller is going to be a Gerald Ford supercarrier.

New aircraft carrier to be named after first black American who received Navy Cross for valor | TheHill
The USS Miller is a Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier — the new kind of carrier the Navy is hauling out to replace Nimitz-class vessels.

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Dayton3 said:
A real carrier or one of those amphibs that happen to carry aircraft? Though it is no doubt deserved, there were tens of thousands of soldiers, sailors, and airmen in World War Two who were undoubtedly just as heroic.
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You mean a jeep carrier?
 
Redress said:
I just saw that and it is very cool. I really like navy ships named after exceptional navy people.



Ford class, so newest carrier, not amphibious.
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Agreed about real people (meaning heroes), not politicians. I was on both the Saratoga and Independence and miss that the Navy stopped naming ships after the most famous first Navy ships. So, no more USS Enterprises.
 
Rising Sun said:
Agreed about real people (meaning heroes), not politicians. I was on both the Saratoga and Independence and miss that the Navy stopped naming ships after the most famous first Navy ships. So, no more USS Enterprises.
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Third Ford class carrier is already going to be the U.S.S. Enterprise.

I suspect this is a political play by the U.S. Navy. They know there is going to be a budget crunch for new naval ship building looming down the road. So in a few years when Congress and the Pentagon hierarchy are talking about cutbacks in the Ford class carrier program, the USN will say "See. This risks delaying or eliminating entirely the first supercarrier named after one of the Navy's first African American heroes from World War Two".
 
Dayton3 said:
Third Ford class carrier is already going to be the U.S.S. Enterprise.

I suspect this is a political play by the U.S. Navy. They know there is going to be a budget crunch for new naval ship building looming down the road. So in a few years when Congress and the Pentagon hierarchy are talking about cutbacks in the Ford class carrier program, the USN will say "See. This risks delaying or eliminating entirely the first supercarrier named after one of the Navy's first African American heroes from World War Two".
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Good to hear!

The budget idea is why they started naming carriers after Presidents. :)
 
Rising Sun said:
Agreed about real people (meaning heroes), not politicians. I was on both the Saratoga and Independence and miss that the Navy stopped naming ships after the most famous first Navy ships. So, no more USS Enterprises.
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There is an USS Enterprise being constructed.

USS Enterprise (CVN-80) - Wikipedia

Sent from my Honor 8X
 
A number of us have seen his image a number of times in various media yet it should be at the thread too.


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Mess Attendant 2nd Class Doris Miller was the first African American to receive the Navy Cross for valor. He died while serving on a ship that was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in November 1943. U.S. NAVY




Miller had a destroyer escort named after him that became reclassified later as a frigate.

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USS Miller DE-1091 Destroyer Escort ship became the 40th KNOX class frigate and the first ship in the Navy named after Cook Third Class Doris Miller, USN. Commissioned on 30 June 1973, redesignated a frigate FF-1091 in 1975, decommissioned on October 15, 1991, she served with the Atlantic Fleet.




In July of 1940 Miller had temporary duty aboard USS Nevada (BB-36) at Secondary Battery Gunnery School. He returned to West Virginia and on 3 August, and was serving in that battleship when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. Miller described firing the machine gun during the battle, a weapon which he had not been trained to operate: "It wasn't hard. I just pulled the trigger and she worked fine. I had watched the others with these guns. I guess I fired her for about fifteen minutes."

Miller was commended by the Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox and he received the Navy Cross, which Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, the Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet personally presented to Miller on board aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6) for his extraordinary courage in battle.

At 5:10 a.m. on 24 November 1943, while cruising near Butaritari Island, a single torpedo from Japanese submarine I-175 struck the escort carrier Liscome Bay near the stern. The aircraft bomb magazine detonated a few moments later, sinking the warship within minutes. Listed as missing from the escort carrier, Miller was later officially presumed dead. Only 272 Sailors survived the sinking of Liscome Bay, while 646 died.

In addition to the Navy Cross, Miller was entitled to the Purple Heart Medal; the American Defense Service Medal, Fleet Clasp; the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal; and the World War II Victory Medal.

Miller, Doris
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RetiredUSN said:
I did 10 years on on 3 different Amphib's.

USS Spartanburg County LST-1192

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I've only done bounces on them from MCAS Tustin. When I cross-decked to the Navy, I was out of NAS Jacksonville in an HS squadron on the Saratoga and, when the Sara went into SLEP, the Independence which was coming out of SLEP.
 
apdst said:
It's about time Dorie got his own boat.

Navy to name aircraft carrier for Pearl Harbor hero Doris Miller - U.S. - Stripes
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Recruiting tactic?

By 2017, the share of active duty military who were non-Hispanic white had fallen, while racial and ethnic minorities made up 43% – and within that group, blacks dropped from 51% in 2004 to 39% in 2017 just as the share of Hispanics rose from 25% to 36%.
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A look at the changing profile of the U.S. military | Pew Research Center
 
Redress said:
I just saw that and it is very cool. I really like navy ships named after exceptional navy people.





Ford class, so newest carrier, not amphibious.
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I also like clowns because they make me smile. Boy O Boy do some people lead a Sheltered life. When you graduate High school we'll see if your Life interests
expand a little more then your statement suggests.
 
Rising Sun said:
I've only done bounces on them from MCAS Tustin. When I cross-decked to the Navy, I was out of NAS Jacksonville in an HS squadron on the Saratoga and, when the Sara went into SLEP, the Independence which was coming out of SLEP.
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I was stationed at Cecil, before they closed it down(they had just made the announcement shortly before I got out). My squadron deployed to the Ike.
 
macbeth said:
I also like clowns because they make me smile. Boy O Boy do some people lead a Sheltered life. When you graduate High school we'll see if your Life interests
expand a little more then your statement suggests.
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I am 50something and a navy vet. Do try and fail less.
 
More proof that Obama isn't president anymore.

Even though there is no evidence he was a pedophile or gay, Democrats tolerate this?
 
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