Friday morning, the Doris Miller VA Medical Center accepted the Medal of Valor from the Texas Veterans Hall of Fame. Organizers stated it’s the highest category award from this organization ...

The generation that lived through World War II needs no reminder of Pearl Harbor Day. Dec. 7, 1941, is burned into the minds of older Americans, just as Nov. 22, 1963, and Sept. 11, 2001, are for ...

Amid the chaos of that fateful day, a young African American Navy mess attendant named Doris Miller exhibited extraordinary bravery, risking his own life to save others and taking up arms against ...

Doris Miller earned the Navy Cross for his actions during the Japanese attack on Hawaii's Pearl Harbor in 1941. At the time, the US military was strictly segregated on racial grounds. Miller ...

About 3,700 miles from Austin at Pearl Harbor, a 22-year old-man from Waco named Doris Miller, nicknamed Dorie, a cook on the USS West Virginia, heard the alarm as several hundred Japanese torpedo ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - Petty Officer 3rd Class Doris Miller was honored at a Harbor Day memorial service held by his statue in Bledsoe-Miller Park. Miller’s great nephew, Thomas Bledsoe, ...

The Texas Veterans Hall of Fame honored Waco native and World War II hero Doris Miller on Friday with its Medal of Valor, and family members also took part in the city’s annual Pearl Harbor Day ...

Surely the most astonishing New Year's Eve in Austin history arrived on Dec. 31, 1999.

Adm. Chester Nimitz, commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet during World War II and a native of Fredericksburg, pins the Navy Cross on Doris "Dorie" Miller, a hero of the attack on Pearl Harbor ...