Article 6B2YR Ken Potts, survivor of sinking of USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor, dies at 102

Ken Potts, survivor of sinking of USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor, dies at 102

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Lou Conter, 101, is now final survivor of ship on which 1,177 were killed when Japanese attack brought US into second world war

Ken Potts, one of the last two survivors of the USS Arizona battleship, which sank during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 102.

Howard Kenton Potts died on Friday at the home in Provo, Utah, that he shared with his wife of 66 years, according to Randy Stratton, whose late father, Donald Stratton, was Potts's Arizona shipmate and friend.

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