Pearl Harbor's Hero the Navy Wouldn't Name

The U.S. Navy decided Doris Miller's place was in the kitchen. He was a Black mess attendant aboard the USS West Virginia, barred by regulation from ever training on a weapon. Then, on the morning of December 7, 1941, with his battleship burning around him, he carried wounded men through the fire, helped move his dying captain — and manned an anti-aircraft gun he was never allowed to touch. What the Navy did with his name afterward is the part they tried to bury.