The last living survivor of the USS Arizona battleship that exploded and sank during the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor has died
. Lou Conter was 102. Conter passed away at his home Monday in Grass Valley, California following congestive heart failure, his daughter, Louann Daley said. The Arizona lost 1,177 sailors and Marines in the 1941 attack that launched the United States into World War II. The battleship’s dead account for nearly half of those killed in the surprise attack. Conter was a quartermaster, standing on the main deck of the Arizona as Japanese planes flew overhead at 7:55 a.m. on Dec. 7 that year.
A sailor expressed doubt they would survive, to which Conter replied, “baloney.” “Don’t ever panic in any situation. Survive is the first thing you tell them. Don’t panic or you’re dead,” he said. They were quiet and treaded water until another plane came hours later and dropped them a lifeboat. In the late 1950s, he was made the Navy’s first SERE officer — an acronym for survival, evasion, resistance and escape.
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