Doris Miller, Pearl Harbor, and the Birth of the Civil Rights Movement, Volume 158

by Tom Cutrer, T. Michael Parrish, Thomas W. Cutrer

On the morning of December 7, 1941, after serving breakfast and turning his attention to laundry services aboard the USS West Virginia, Ship's Cook Third Class Doris "Dorie" Miller heard the alarm calling sailors to battle stations. The first of several torpedoes dropped from Japanese aircraft had struck the American battleship. Miller hastily made his way to a central point and was soon called to the bridge by Lt. Com. Doir C. Johnson to assist...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1623496020
• ISBN13: 9781623496029
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.5"