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 .