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Two survivors of the bombing — each 100 or older — are planning to return to Pearl Harbor on Saturday to observe the 83rd anniversary of the attack that thrust the US into World War II.
Now 100 years old, the veteran is believed to be one of only 16 Pearl Harbor survivors who are still alive, Kathleen Farley, the California state chair of the Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor ...
One of the country’s last survivors of the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor, Fernandez died Wednesday in Lodi, Calif. He was 100. His death brings the number of Pearl Harbor survivors to a little ...
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.
Donald Stratton (July 14, 1922 – February 15, 2020) was an American veteran and memoirist of World War II who served in the United States Navy's Pacific Fleet. [1] [2] [3] He was in the port gun director of the ship USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor, when an armor-piercing bomb set off the ship's forward ammunition magazine.
Pearl Harbor Howard Kenton Potts (April 15, 1921 – April 21, 2023) was an American World War II veteran, who was aboard the USS Arizona BB-39 when it was attacked on December 7, 1941 . Prior to his death, Potts was one of two known surviving members of the Arizona ′ s crew at the time of the attack .
Conter went on to survive being shot down in WWII. Conter was one of the 335 sailors aboard the USS Arizona who survived on Dec. 7, 1941. The Arizona lost 1,177 sailors and Marines during the ...
The Pearl Harbor Survivors Association (PHSA), founded in 1958 and recognized by the United States Congress in 1985, was a World War II veterans organization whose members were on Pearl Harbor or three miles or less offshore during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941. The PHSA was officially disbanded at the end of December ...