Dorie Miller, hero of Pearl Harbor -- Navy Cross citation

Missing in action and presumed dead, November 24, 1943, after his ship, the USS Liscombe, sunk by Japanese torpedo.

 

Navy Cross Medal
to
MESS ATTENDANT SECOND CLASS DORIS MILLER
UNITED STATES NAVY
for services as set forth in the following:
CITATION: "For distinguished devotion to duty, extraordinary courage and disregard for his own personal safety during the attack on the Fleet in Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941. While at the side of his Captain on the bridge, 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 enemy Japanese attacking aircraft until ordered to leave the bridge."