Word: messman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Long-memoried Reader Anderson is thinking of Doris ("Dorie") Miller, messman aboard the battleship Arizona, who on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941 dashed to the bridge, helped carry his mortally wounded captain to a place of greater safety, then manned a machine gun and blasted away at Jap planes until his ammunition ran out. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz pinned a Navy Cross on Miller in 1942 for ''distinguished devotion to duty, extraordinary courage and disregard of his own personal safety." Two years later, heroic Doric Miller was lost...