Lou Conter, last living Pearl Harbor survivor aboard USS Arizona, dead at 102 [Video]

• Lou Conter, the last living Pearl Harbor survivor who was aboard the USS Arizona when it exploded and sank, died Monday. He was 102.
• Conter, who was a quartermaster on Dec. 7, 1941, was on the ship’s main deck when Japanese planes flew overhead and began their assault on the Hawaii naval base.
• Conter’s illustrious career would continue long after Pearl Harbor. A trained pilot and member of a “Black Cats” squadron, Conter was also the Navy’s first survival, evasion, resistance and escape — or SERE — officer. He retired in 1967.

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 …