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Related Historical Markers
Other markers relating to Cooks, Stewards, and Messmen.
By Richard E. Miller (HMC, USN, Ret.), October 16, 2004
The unveiling.
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
| On Bacon Avenue at Morris Street, on the right when traveling north on Bacon Avenue. |
| | From 1933 to 1942, Navy recruits of African descent attended this school, located in barracks at Unit “K-West” and later at “B-East.” Advancement opportunities for these sailors and counterparts of Asian-Pacific Island . . . — — Map (db m70260) HM |
| Near 16th Street North north of 5th Avenue. |
| | In dedication to Julius Ellsberry, the first Black Alabama man to die in World War II; born Birmingham, Ala, 1922.
Enlisted in the U.S. Navy, 1940; First Class Mate [sic] Attendant aboard battleship Oklahoma in the Battle of Pearl . . . — — Map (db m63761) HM WM |
| On Garrison Street east of Chestnut Street. |
| | Doris (Dorie) Miller was reared on a farm in McClennan County, Texas, and attended Waco’s A.J. Moore High School. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy and was assigned to the battleship “USS West Virginia” in 1940. The “West . . . — — Map (db m34637) HM |
| On Leonard Roy Harmon Drive, 0.1 miles south of East Broadway Street (U.S. 87), in the median. |
| | Born in Cuero, Leonard Roy Harmon enlisted in the U.S. Navy in Houston in June 1939. After training in Norfolk, Virginia, he reported for duty on the cruiser “U.S.S. San Francisco” and advanced to Mess Attendant First Class.
During . . . — — Map (db m34628) HM |
May. 17, 2024