Nimitz Pins the Navy Cross on Doris Miller, May 27, 1942
On the morning of May 27, 1942, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz stepped onto the flight deck of USS Enterprise (CV-6) at Pearl Harbor to pin the Navy Cross on a mess attendant. It was, by any measure, the worst possible week for a ceremony. Nimitz held it anyway. A ceremony squeezed between crises Enterprise had … Read more