Ken Potts, one of last 2 USS Arizona survivors, dies at 102


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In this photo provided by the US Marine Corps, former US Navy coxswain Howard "Ken" Potts attends the Freedom Bell Opening Ceremony and Bell Ringing at USS Bowfin Submarine Museum & Park on Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, Dec. 6, 2016. Photo: Lance Cpl Robert Sweet/US Marine Corps/AP

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

Howard Kenton Potts died April 21 at the home in Provo, Utah, the United States that he shared with his wife of 66 years, according to Randy Stratton, whose late father, Donald Stratton, was Potts' Arizona shipmate and close friend.

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