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THE INFAMOUS ATTACK

The coffee cups suddenly went spinning as an explosion knocked Dorie Miller flat on his back. Jumping up from his supine position, the powerfully built messman from Waco, Texas, headed for the deck.

Everywhere that Dorie looked he saw smoke and mammoth warships lying on their sides.

Overhead, dozens of Japanese dive bombers controlled the skies without a U.S. plane to repulse their attack.

The havoc was enormous. Without hesitating, Dorie joined a team that was feeding ammunition to a machine gunner who was making an ineffectual attempt to protect their battleship from being razed by the torpedo planes.