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☆ Lou Conter, Last Survivor of the Battleship Arizona, Dies at 102
  + stars: | 2024-04-01 | by ( Richard Goldstein | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Lou Conter, the last known survivor of the battleship Arizona, which sank with the loss of 1,177 sailors and Marines in Japan’s sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, plunging the United States into World War II, died on Monday at his home in Grass Valley, Calif. “The ship was consumed in a giant fireball,” he wrote in his memoir, “The Lou Conter Story: From U.S.S. Arizona Survivor to Unsung American Hero” (2021), a collaboration with Annette C. Hull and Warren R. Hull. Mr. Conter, who was knocked forward but uninjured, tended to survivors, many of them blinded and badly burned. Only 93 of those who were aboard the ship at the time lived; 242 other crew members were ashore.
Persons: Lou Conter, Louann Daley, Conter, ”, Annette C, Warren R Organizations: Associated Press, U.S.S . Arizona Survivor, Unsung, Hull Locations: Arizona, Pearl, United States, Grass Valley, Calif, Honolulu , Hawaii, U.S.S .
☆ The last survivor of the USS Arizona died at 102 — more than 80 years after Pearl Harbor attack
  + stars: | 2024-04-01 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Lou Conter, the last known survivor of the USS Arizona, died at age 102. AdvertisementThe last known survivor of the USS Arizona died on Monday at the age of 102. 🇺🇸⚓️ pic.twitter.com/cU2i2xIcjn — USS Arizona (@USSArizona) April 1, 2024Conter was stationed on the USS Arizona as a quartermaster and was standing on the ship's main deck when Japanese planes appeared in the skies around 8 a.m. on December 7, 1941. In his older age, Canter regularly attended Pearl Harbor remembrance ceremonies and rebuked suggestions that he was a hero. "The 2,403 men that died are the heroes," he told the AP in 2022, referring to the number of Americans who died in the Pearl Harbor attack.
Persons: Lou Conter, Conter, —, USS, Lou, 🇺🇸⚓️ Organizations: USS, Navy, Service, Arizona, Associated Press Locations: USS Arizona, Honolulu, Grass Valley , California
☆ Ken Potts, Oldest Survivor of U.S.S. Arizona Sinking, Dies at 102
  + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Sam Roberts | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Ken Potts, the oldest known survivor of the Japanese sneak attack that sunk the battleship Arizona at Pearl Harbor in 1941, taking the most lives ever lost on an American warship, died on Friday at his home in Provo, Utah, less than a week after celebrating his 102 birthday. His death was announced by the National Park Service, which administers the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, above the sunken hull where the remains of more than 900 of the 1,177 sailors and Marines who were killed in the attack are still entombed. Lou Conter, a 101-year-old Californian, is now believed to be the only living survivor among the Arizona crewmen who escaped the inferno that Sunday morning. Only 93 of those who were aboard the ship at the time lived; 242 other crew members were ashore.
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