Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Dorie Miller

Dorie Miller

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Original – Doris Miller was a Messman Third Class who was not allowed or trained to operate a gun. At the time, black sailors were not supposed to use guns. During the Pearl Harbor attack, in spite of that rule, he crewed the deck gun to fight in defense of his ship, the USS West Virginia. He also assisted in tending to the wounded on the ship.

Reason

Doris "Dorie" Miller was the first African-American sailor to be awarded the Navy Cross by the U.S. Navy. He is pictured here immediately after receiving his award wearing the Cross. This photo also became the basis of this recruitment poster:

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Yesterday, January 19, 2020, the U.S. Navy announced that the aircraft carrier CVN-81 will be named after him. The destroyer USS Miller was also named after him.

Articles in which this image appears

Doris Miller, List of people from Texas, 1943; also has EV at USS Doris Miller (CVN-81) when that is expanded

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Military

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Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/USA History

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Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/World War II

Creator

Unknown photographer, U.S. Navy; restored by Coffeeandcrumbs

• Support as nominator – --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 16:20, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
• Support Geoffroi 20:15, 22 January 2020 (UTC)
• Support Not so much for the picture but more for the historic significance. --Gnosis (talk) 23:10, 22 January 2020 (UTC)
• Support – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 22:04, 23 January 2020 (UTC)
• Support per Gnosis: the photo itself isn't anything special, but it has very strong EV for being the most commonly used photo of its subject and the subject of a wartime PR campaign. Nick-D (talk) 01:02, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

Promoted File:Dorie Miller.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 19:51, 30 January 2020 (UTC)