December 28, 2024

One hundred-one year old Ken Potts, one of only two living survivors that were aboard the Battleship USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor. During the attack on Pearl Harbor, Potts was a Boatswain Mate working as a crane operator and was up early that Sunday shuttling supplies to the USS Arizona. When the attack started and sailors were thrown into the water, Potts used his boat to retrieve them and move them to Ford Island.
He describes what he saw in an interview last year:

The only other living survivor of the Arizona is Louis Canter, also 101 years old. More than 2,400 Americans lost their lives that day.

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