The Associated Press reports that 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.
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.
The article reports that there are only 19 survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack still living.
May this true American Hero rest in peace.