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Lou Conter, the last living survivor of the USS Arizona battleship that exploded and sank during the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 102.Conter passed away on Monday at his home in Grass Valley, California, following congestive heart failure, his daughter, Louann Daley said, ad
stanley cup ding she was beside him along with two of her brothers, James and Jeff.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 for nearly half of those killed in the attack.Conter was a quartermaster, standing on the
stanley quencher main deck of the Arizona as Japanese planes flew overhead at 7:55 a.m. on Dec. 7 that year. Sailors were just beginning to hoist colors or raise the flag when the assault began.Conter recalled how one bomb penetrated steel decks 13 minutes into the battle and set off more than 1 million pounds of gunpowder stored below.The explosion lifted the battleship 30 to 40 feet out of the water, he said during a 2008 oral history interview stored at the Library of Congress. Everything was on fire from the mainmast forward, he said. Guys were running out of the fire and trying to jump over the sides, Conter said. Oil all over the sea was burning. His autobiography The Lou Conter Story recounts how he joined other survivors in tending to the injured, many of them blinded and badly burned. The sailors only abandoned ship when their senior surviving o
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