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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 last surviving crew member from the USS Arizona battleship - which was sunk in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii - has died. He was 102. Louis Conter was on watch when the US ...

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, the last living survivor of the USS Arizona battleship that exploded and sank during the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor ... He retired in 1967. Louis Anthony Conter was born in ...