Mess Attendant Second Class Doris Miller, United States Navy was awarded for distinguished devotion to duty, extraordinary courage and disregard for his own personal safety during the attack on the Fleet in Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941. While at the side of his Captain on the bridge, Miller, despite enemy strafing and bombing and in the face of serious fire, assisted in moving his Captain, who had been mortally wounded, to a place of greater safety, and later manned and operated a machine gun directed at enemy Japanese attacking aircraft until ordered to leave the bridge.

Miller was assigned to the USS Liscome Bay (CVE-56) in the spring of 1943 and was on board during Operation Galvanic, the seizure of Makin and Tarawa Atolls in the Gilbert Islands. On 24 November 1943, while cruising near Butaritari Island, a single torpedo from a Japanese submarine struck the escort carrier near the stern. The aircraft bomb magazine detonated a few moments later, sinking the warship within minutes. Listed as missing in action following the loss of the Liscome Bay, Miller was officially presumed dead on 25 November 1944. Only 272 Sailors survived from a crew of 918.

Mr. Miller was posthumously enrolled in the L.O.V. in 2004