The USS Arizona still sits where it sank eight decades ago, with more than 900 dead entombed inside.
, Potts said a loudspeaker ordered sailors back to their ships so he got on a boat.
Sailors were tossed or forced to jump into the oily muck below, and Potts and his fellow sailors pulled some to safety in their boat.Getty Images Potts recalled decades later that some people were still giving orders in the midst of the attack but there was also a lot of chaos. He carried his memories of the attack over the course of his long life.
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Ken Potts, one of last 2 USS Arizona survivors, dies at 102One of the last two remaining survivors of the USS Arizona battleship, which sank during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, has died
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Ken Potts, one of last 2 USS Arizona survivors, dies at 102One of the last two remaining survivors of the USS Arizona battleship, which sank during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, has died
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Ken Potts, one of last 2 USS Arizona survivors, dies at 102One of the last two remaining survivors of the USS Arizona battleship, which sank during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, has died. Ken Potts was 102. Randy Stratton, whose late father, Donald Stratton, was Potts’ Arizona shipmate and close friend, said Potts died Friday in Provo, Utah, at the home he shared with his wife of 66 years. Stratton said Potts “had all his marbles,” but his body was shutting down and lately he had a hard time getting out of bed. The sole survivor from the Arizona is now Lou Conter, who is 101 and living in California.
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Ken Potts, one of last 2 USS Arizona survivors, dies at 102Ken Potts, one of the last two remaining survivors of the USS Arizona battleship, which sank during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 102.
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Provo resident Ken Potts, one of last two USS Arizona survivors, dies at 102Provo resident Ken Potts, one of the last two remaining survivors of the USS Arizona battleship, which sank during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, has died at age 102.
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One of last 2 USS Arizona survivors, Ken Potts, dies at 102Ken Potts had just turned 102 a week ago, and had carried memories of the attack throughout the course of his long life.
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