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Sale 2697 - Lot 300

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(MILITARY--WORLD WAR TWO.) Issue of the Navy News Bulletin revealing the identity of Pearl Harbor hero Dorie Miller. 10 mimeograph pages on 5 sheets, 14 x 8½ inches, stapled in one corner; horizontal fold, minor wear, early owners' inscriptions in upper margin. [Washington, D.C.]: Navy Department, 3 April 1942
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A weekly summary of naval news issued by the Navy's Office of Public Relations. This issue features 4 blurbs on Dorie Miller. On page 4, "Doris 'Dorie' Miller, the 'unnamed Negro messman hero' . . . has left the ranks of the 'unknown' forever. Navy Secretary Knox commended the 22-year-old Texan for bravery." At the end of the bulletin are three blurbs using Miller's heroism to call into question the Navy's discriminatory recruitment policies.

With--a one-page 7 April 1942 Navy press release announcing "Navy to Accept Negroes for General Service."

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