Shipbuilders Featured on “ABC World News Tonight”

Published July 27, 2021

Three Newport News Shipbuilding employees – Darnell Prigmore, Neil Holley and Jessica Rosser – appeared on “ABC World News Tonight with David Muir” Thursday, July 22, for a segment on World War II hero Doris Miller and the aircraft carrier that will bear his name.

Miller was lauded for his actions during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on

Dec. 7, 1941. NNS is building Doris Miller (CVN 81), the fourth Ford-class carrier and the first U.S. Navy carrier to be named for an African American. Watch the segment on Homeport or on the “ABC World News Tonight” website.