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One living survivor of USS Arizona tragedy remains after recent death of fellow shipmate

(by: Alfred Acenas, Hawaii-Pacific Bureau, Eagle News) With the passing late last week of USS Arizona survivor Howard Kenton “Ken” Potts, aged 102, Louis Conter is now the only living veteran of the ill-fated battleship who lost 1,177 men during the Japanese surprise attack at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941. Lou Conter was born in September 1921 in Ojibwa, Wisconsin. At 18, he enlisted in the Navy and completed basic training in San […]