"Not since the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was sunk by the Japanese when they attacked ... lives that fateful day– second most to USS Arizona." The Virginia-class submarines, also known ...
Flaming debris from an explosion on the nearby USS Arizona set parts of the Tennessee on fire. Five crew members died in the attack. As crews abandoned the blazing, sinking ships on Battleship Row ...
Conter was a 20-year-old Navy quartermaster on the USS Arizona on Dec. 7, 1941, and one of 335 Arizona crewmen to escape the ship as it sank in the waters of Pearl Harbor, strafed by bullets ...
Kent Nishimura/Getty Lou Conter, the last known survivor of the USS Arizona battleship, which sank during the attack on Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 102. Conter died Monday morning at his home ...
The USS West Virginia in 1944, rebuilt after sinking in the attack on Pearl Harbor To hear the ... and oil fires from the nearby USS Arizona spread to its decks, according to Defense Department ...