Totally cool.
A Navy ship named after a black guy who was there and who shot back, whether he was supposed to or not...
That honor will more than offset the mistake.
Cook Third Class Doris Miller’s Navy Cross Citation.
CITATION: “For distinguished devotion to duty, extraordinary courage and disregard for his own personal safety during the attack on the Fleet in Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941. While at the side of his Captain on the bridge, Miller, despite enemy strafing and bombing and in the face of a serious fire, assisted in moving his Captain, who had been mortally wounded, to a place of greater safety, and later manned and operated a machine gun directed at enemy Japanese attacking aircraft until ordered to leave the bridge.”
Miller displayed bravery and ingenuity on December 7. I am not sure that that rises to his name being on a CVN. a Destroyer yes, but not a CVN.
How complicated can it be to change a caption on a picture?
My FIL was an aircraft mechanic on the Corregidor, a sister ship of the Liscomb Bay. They were the lightly armored “Jeep Carriers”, built after the start of the war. His battle position was on an anti-aircraft gun on the side of the deck. The two carriers were close together during this battle.
During the battle, my FIL saw a fan of torpedoes heading toward both ships. None of them hit the Corregidor, but one hit the Liscomb Bay, and exploded its magazine. She sank in minutes.