Dorie Miller
Mess Attendant Second Class, USN (1919-1943) just after being presented with the Navy Cross by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, on board USS Enterprise (CV-6) at Pearl Harbor, 27 May 1942. The medal was awarded for heroism on board USS West Virginia (BB-48) during the Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
- Date
- 1942-05-27
- Photographer / author
- photographer, US Navy; restored by User:Coffeeandcrumbs
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- image
- Original size
- 4,515 × 3,388 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (US Navy).
Read from: Commons licence category: PD US Navy; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
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"Dorie Miller" (1942-05-27). photographer, US Navy; restored by User:Coffeeandcrumbs, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dorie_Miller.jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 2055.
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