Thanks to volunteer Gaylord Lentz, who shared this Wall Street Journal account of the life of the last USS Arizona survivor, 101-year-old Lou Conter. Mr. Conter was, according to the article, one of 334 survivors Dec. 7, 1941, the day 1,177 Arizona sailors and Marines perished during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. (Some sources give the number as 335.) Read Mr. Conter’s remarkable life story below. Also, compare the similarly shaped relic from the Arizona in the background of Mr. Conter’s photo to the relic on exhibit at Fort Miles Museum.
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