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 ...

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 ...

One of the deadliest attacks on our nation’s military came in 1941, when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Military survivors of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Thousands lost their lives during the Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii ... The Honolulu Advertiser on Dec. 7, 1941. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Dec. 8, 1941.

Communities across the nation honored the 83rd anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, reflecting on ... 32 individuals from the greater St. Louis area and 140 from Missouri.

More than 80 years after he died in the attack on Pearl Harbor, John Connolly was finally laid to rest – not as an unknown in ...

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.

After training in Newport, R.I., he served aboard the USS St. Louis, which came to be known as “Lucky Lou” for escaping the attack on Pearl Harbor. Johnson played a crucial role in the first ...