HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A somber day of remembrance was held at Pearl Harbor Tuesday morning, honoring the late Lou Conter ...
Naval strength has long been a vital factor in global politics. Here are 10 ships that were involved in key moments in major ...
The crew was the first to receive the new medal, which was created last year for missions sailing under Arctic ice.
HONOLULU--USS Arizona sailor Lou Conter lived through the ... One night in 1943 he and his crew had to avoid a dozen or so nearby sharks after they were shot down near New Guinea.
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 ...
And then there was one Lou Conter, 102, is the last living USS Arizona crew member. Half of Pearl Harbor’s casualties came with the sinking of the Arizona, and oil still leaks from its remains ...
Roy Martin, former President of the Navy League’s Richmond chapter, wrote an historical background to the Pearl Harbor attack ...
Lying beneath the surface of the calm waters of Pearl Harbor, just outside downtown Honolulu are the remains of the USS Arizona and the more than 1,000 members of the boat's crew who lost their lives ...
The attack destroyed 169 planes and two battleships (the USS Arizona and the USS Oklahoma ... Russia, where its crew was imprisoned. The attack was a rousing success that inspired the American ...
Its non-combatant status notwithstanding, it still was attacked by Japanese pilots, killing 58 crew members ... it joined the ...
The concert raised funds for a USS Arizona memorial to recognize the 1,177 crew members on the battleship who died in the Japanese surprise attack that prompted the United States' entry into World ...
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