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 was a quartermaster, standing on the main deck of the Arizona as Japanese planes flew overhead on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941
The explosion lifted the battleship 30 to 40 feet out of the water, he said during a 2008 oral history interview stored at the Library of Congress. Everything was on fire from the mainmast forward, he said. The rusting wreckage of the Arizona still lies where it sank. More than 900 sailors and Marines remain entombed inside.
“Don’t ever panic in any situation. Survive is the first thing you tell them. Don’t panic or you’re dead,” he said. They were quiet and treaded water until another plane came hours later and dropped them a lifeboat.
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