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Louis Anthony Conter (September 13, 1921 – April 1, 2024) was an American naval officer who was a lieutenant commander and naval aviator in the United States Navy.At the time of his death, he was the last living survivor of the sinking of the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Conter, the last survivor of the attack by the Japanese on the USS Arizona, died Monday at the age of 102, surrounded by family in Grass Valley. On Dec. 7, 1941, he woke up early and was planning ...
Potts died on April 21, 2023, six days after celebrating his 102nd birthday. He was the penultimate USS Arizona survivor and flags were flown at half-mast through April 28 to honor him at the Pearl Harbor memorial. [3] The last survivor, Lou Conter, died on April 1, 2024. [5]
Lou Conter, the final USS Arizona survivor from Pearl Harbor, dies at 102. Gannett. Jonathan Limehouse, Cincinnati Enquirer. April 1, 2024 at 6:53 PM.
The Arizona lost 1,177 sailors and Marines in the 1941 attack that launched the United States into World War II. The battleship’s dead account Lou Conter, last survivor of USS Arizona from Pearl ...
Donald Stratton (July 14, 1922 – February 15, 2020) was an American veteran and memoirist of World War II who served in the United States Navy's Pacific Fleet. [1] [2] [3] He was in the port gun director of the ship USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor, when an armor-piercing bomb set off the ship's forward ammunition magazine.
U.S. Navy veteran Louis Conter, the last surviving crew member from the battleship USS Arizona, which was destroyed by Japanese warplanes in the attack on Pearl Harbor more than eight decades ago ...
Harding died just one week later, and Arizona joined the Pacific Fleet to fire a salute in his honor on 3 August. [21] Sometime in early March 1924 a prostitute named Madeline Blair stowed away aboard Arizona, trading sex for a free voyage to San Pedro until she was discovered on 12 April while the ship was anchored in Balboa, Panama.