In a historic moment just in time for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas B. Modly has announced that the newest U.S. Navy aircraft carrier will be named USS Doris Miller (CVN 81). Miller was the first African American to receive the Navy Cross. Full story: https://navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=111881 | U.S. Navy

The USS Doris Miller (CVN-81) is a future Gerald R. Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier currently under construction for the United States Navy. It is being built at Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, located in Newport News, Virginia — the only shipyard in America capable of constructing nuclear-powered carriers. The ship's keel is scheduled to be laid in January 2026, marking the formal start of its assembly. Following years of advanced construction

Doris Miller was a mess attendant aboard the battleship USS West Virginia during the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. His strength and courage saved the lives of men who might otherwise have perished. Yet his story went unacknowledged for years. | National Geographic TV