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The Messman Chronicles: African-Americans in the U.S. Navy, 1932-1943 ReviewRichard Miller has obviously spent a great deal of time finding and interviewing the messmen veterans and does a masterful job, by analyzing their often poignant personal accounts, of showing how multidimensional they are. Through insightful discussion, he shows the reader the role thousands of these men played in the desegregation not only of the U.S. Navy and the military, but of all of American society as a whole. I found the final section of the book, which dealt with Doris "Dorie" Miller - the messman who displayed valor aboard the battleship West Virginia during the attack on Pearl Harbor - particularly compelling for the way it showed how politics of that era manipulated that young man's action in order to drive desegregation.
I look forward to Miller's sequel dealing with the messmen's branch during 1943 and after. There is also room for a chronicle of the Asian-Pacific Island comrades of the African-American messmen.The Messman Chronicles: African-Americans in the U.S. Navy, 1932-1943 Overview

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