The Survivors

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Doris Miller , right, has been hailed as one of The First American heroes of the second World War

The US Navy is to name its new Aircraft Carrier after a black Sailor who fought in the second World War .

Doris Miller earned the Navy Cross for his actions during the Japanese attack on Hawaii's Pearl Harbor in 1941.

At the time, the U.S. military was strictly separated from each other on racial grounds. Miller became an icon for black Americans in The Conflict .

the naming of the vessel after the heroic Sailor is More Than 78 years after the events, his name.

It was named for the First Time an Aircraft Carrier , after an African American. Up to now, they have been named after the famous battles, military leaders, and U.S. presidents.

The official announcement is planned for Monday - Martin Luther King Jr ' s Birthday on Pearl Harbor . The Bay is The Site of a massive U.S. naval station, and The Base of the country-Pacific.

Who Doris Miller was?

Miller was the third of Four Sons born in the year 1919 in Texas. He was called Doris, as his mother had thought she was a girl, but often the nickname "Dorie" went.

Jim Crow laws - a system of measures that denied black Americans who dominated their rights and separated them from their white neighbors in The South at the time. After the fall of school from the high and struggles to find work, Miller joined the Navy in 1939, at the age of 20 years.

Doris Miller was a mess attendant in the Segregation of the U.S. Navy

"Marine policy" that the time is limited to blacks, these tasks were manual, that you do not require to think, a whole lot of intellect"

After the training, Miller, a mess attendant was someone who took care of the white Officers , and in 1940 was assigned to the battleship West Virginia .

He was sorting the Laundry on The Ship one morning, when a Japanese torpedo slammed into The Ship .

It was The First of nine torpedoes that would meet and sink the West Virginia on the 7. December 1941. The Japanese Surprise Attack on Pearl Harbor killed More Than 2,300 people and brought the United States into the second World War .

Miller ran to help his fellow sailors. He first moved into his mortally Wounded Captain to shelter before the crew of a anti-aircraft gun - strictly against the rules, like a black Sailor , and fire back to The Hundreds of Japanese planes overhead.

"It wasn't hard. I pulled The Trigger and she worked fine," he said later,

"I think I have one of those [Japanese] planes. They were diving pretty close to us. "

He fired until he had no ammunition, and helped comrades to his wounded ship. He abandoned The Ship with The Survivors , such as the West Virginia sank to the bottom of the port.

In January 1942, the U.S. Navy announced a list of awards for American soldiers on Pearl Harbor - including one for an unnamed black man.

Two months later, the Pittsburgh courier told The Sailor to be Doris Miller . "Not anymore, his name is unknown," The Report read.

Soon after, a senator and a Congressman started separate bills in both houses of Congress are calling for Miller to receive the Medal of Honor , the highest military Honor in the United States. African American rights groups, the get for Miller, an award for his actions, while the media celebrated him as the "first American hero" of The War .

Other groups fought against any recognition for Miller on the basis of his race.

In may of this year, President Franklin Roosevelt, who ignored the controversy and awarded him the Navy Cross , at the time, awarded the third highest award of the U.S. Navy.

wall images, news, reports and rights groups hailed Miller as one of The First American heroes of The War ,

Miller went on a lecture tour and became a nationwide celebrity, but returned to sea aboard the Aircraft Carrier Liscombe Bay. He was killed when The Ship was sunk by a Japanese submarine in the battle of Makin in November 1943.

But his legacy lives on as one of The First African-American hero of the second World War . Cuba Gooding Jr played The Role of Doris Miller in the 2001 movie Pearl Harbor , while Waco is a statue of Miller and unveiled in the year 2017.

and Now, a new Aircraft Carrier will be built and, finally, 2028 bearing Millers started name.

"It is enormous," historian Regina Akers told CBS that the decision showed that "heroism is in no way limited to, of race, of gender, of background, of rank, or rating. "

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Source of news: bbc.com