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Pearl Harbor Survivor to Mark 78th Anniversary

VOA News

   One of only three surviving crewmembers of the USS Arizona will be in
   Hawaii Saturday to mark the 78th anniversary of the "date which will
   live in infamy."

   Lou Conter, 98, will attend the commemoration ceremony held to remember
   the 2,390 Americans killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
   and the island of Oahu on Dec. 7, 1941.

   Conter was on the stern of the USS Arizona when a Japanese bomb pierced
   the bow of the battleship, igniting a million pounds of gunpowder. A
   total of 1,177 men were killed on the Arizona.

   On Saturday, Conter will also attend the internment of a shipmate who
   died in September.

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