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    Lou Conter, last survivor of USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor bombing, dies in California at 102

    by James Queally, Los Angeles Times Apr 01, 2024 1 minute
    USS Arizona survivor Lou Conter looks on near the Arizona Remembrance Wall during a memorial service marking the 74th anniversary of the attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 2015, on the island of Oahu at the Kilo Pier, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, in Honolulu, Hawaii.

    Lou Conter, the last survivor of the battleship USS Arizona, which sank during the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, died at his home in Grass Valley, California, on Monday. He was 102.

    Conter — who was just 20 years a nonprofit that helps maintain the USS Arizona Memorial and other historic landmarks in Hawaii. The nonprofit confirmed Conter's death through his daughter.

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