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USS Arizona was a standard-type battleship built for the United States Navy in the mid-1910s. Named in honor of the 48th state , she was the second and last ship in the Pennsylvania class . After being commissioned in 1916, Arizona remained stateside during World War I but escorted President Woodrow Wilson to the subsequent Paris Peace Conference .
The USS Arizona Memorial seen from the Pearl Harbor National Memorial on Dec. 4, 2019 in Honolulu, Hawaii. ... its guns hit a dive bomber which then slammed into the ship and exploded below deck ...
USS Arizona sinking and burning during the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 USS Arizona in the 1950s. During and following the end of World War II, Arizona ' s wrecked superstructure was removed and efforts began to erect a memorial at the remaining submerged hull. Robert Ripley, of Ripley's Believe It or Not! fame, visited Pearl Harbor ...
Damaged, struck by 2 bombs and adjacent to Arizona during explosions, repaired self and a Pearl Harbor moored port side to the port side of the Arizona at F-7 Rigel: AR-11 Minor damage from bomb near-misses moored in berth B-13, Navy Yard, unarmed and undergoing major repairs and conversion, forward of Ramapo: Pelias: AS-14 Undamaged
Lou Conter, the final survivor of the USS Arizona, the Navy battleship that was sunk – with a loss of 1,177 lives – during the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, has died at age 102.
U.S. Navy veteran Louis Conter, the last surviving crew member from the battleship USS Arizona, which was destroyed by Japanese warplanes in the attack on Pearl Harbor more than eight decades ago ...
Louis Anthony Conter (September 13, 1921 – April 1, 2024) was an American naval officer who was a lieutenant commander and naval aviator in the United States Navy.At the time of his death, he was the last living survivor of the sinking of the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
One of the sole remaining survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack that launched World War II disobeyed orders and fought back. Now 100 years old, he continues to share his stories.