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The last living survivor of the USS Arizona battleship that exploded and sank during the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor has died. Lou Conter was 102.
Conter passed away at his home Monday in Grass Valley, California following congestive heart failure, his daughter, Louann Daley said.
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 bombing.
Read more: https://www.9news.com/article/news/nation-world/last-living-survivor-uss-arizona-pearl-harbor-dies-at-102/507-20e1a05e-bd96-490b-b21f-6b137addc934
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