On the morning of December 7, 1941, the USS St. Louis—nicknamed “Lucky Lou”—was caught off guard at Pearl Harbor, unready for ...

On the quiet morning of December 7, 1941, the light cruiser USS St. Louis lay anchored at Pearl Harbor, her crew expecting a routine weekend leave. With her boilers cold and guns silent ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo ... Bock was one of 429 crewmen killed when the USS Oklahoma was attacked by Japanese aircraft at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor. The USS Oklahoma sustained multiple torpedo hits ...

when Japanese fighters bombed Pearl Harbor. His parents, sister and two brothers were buried at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis, but his body remained, unidentified, in Hawaii ...

Furthermore, most of the Americans on that historic mission were from St. Paul ... Orville Ethier served aboard the USS Ward on December 7, 1941 when Pearl Harbor was attacked.

The tragedy of Pearl Harbor lasted for ... live in infamy.” And Louis “Lou” Conter remembered every brutal second of it. The tough last survivor of the USS Arizona, he was on deck when ...

The last living survivor of the USS Arizona battleship that exploded ... on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941. File: Louis "Lou" Conter, a Pearl Harbor survivor, poses for a photo during the 76th ...

Lou Conter, who survived the bombing of Pearl Harbor aboard the battleship USS Arizona ... "They're asking for Louis Anthony Conter," she said. "Are you in trouble?" Conter answered.

The USS Ward Gun Number Three, which was manned by St. Paul reservists on a Navy warship during the Dec. 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor attack, now sits on the state Capitol Mall. An effort to move the ...

LOS ANGELES, April 1 (Reuters) - 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 ...