Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Dorie Miller

Dorie Miller
Voting period ends on 30 Jan 2020  at 16:20:46 (UTC)
 * Reason:Doris "Dorie" Miller was the first African-American sailor to be awarded the Navy Cross by the U.S. Navy. He is pictured here immediately after receiving his award wearing the Cross. This photo also became the basis of this recruitment poster:
 * Above and beyond poster.jpg.


 * Yesterday, January 19, 2020, the U.S. Navy announced that the aircraft carrier CVN-81 will be named after him. The destroyer USS Miller was also named after him.


 * Articles in which this image appears:Doris Miller, List of people from Texas, 1943; also has EV at USS Doris Miller (CVN-81) when that is expanded
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/People/Military
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 * Featured pictures/History/USA History
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 * Featured pictures/History/World War II


 * Creator:Unknown photographer, U.S. Navy; restored by Coffeeandcrumbs


 * Support as nominator – --- C &amp; C  (Coffeeandcrumbs) 16:20, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Support Geoffroi  20:15, 22 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Support Not so much for the picture but more for the historic significance. --Gnosis (talk) 23:10, 22 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Support – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 22:04, 23 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Support per Gnosis: the photo itself isn't anything special, but it has very strong EV for being the most commonly used photo of its subject and the subject of a wartime PR campaign. Nick-D (talk) 01:02, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 19:51, 30 January 2020 (UTC)