Doris Miller showed his true worth and value above the USS West Virginia in the famed Pearl Harbor attack.

WACO- This month in Black History, brings remembrance of a day in America’s history, Pearl Harbor, which connects to the great historical story of the Black Pearl Harbor hero, Doris Miller. The attack upon Pearl Harbor, by Japanese Raider planes, on December 7, 1941, was one of the worse days in America’s history; whereas Japan stood victorious in their air raid that lasted for a nearly an hour. Yet, it was a date that a young sailor rose above his shadowed image in being only a mess man, and acted heroically aboard the USS West Virginia as it was being bombed and torpedoed by Japanese bomber planes on that dreary day of death and destruction.