Potts was one of the last two remaining survivors of the USS Arizona battleship, which sank during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour.
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
Stratton said Potts"had all his marbles” but lately was having a hard time getting out of bed. When Stratton spoke to Potts on his birthday, April 15, he was happy to have made it to 102. "When I got back to Pearl Harbour, the whole harbour was afire,” he said in the interview."The oil had leaked out and caught on fire and was burning.”
The Arizona sank just nine minutes after being bombed, and its 1,177 dead account for nearly half the servicemen killed in the attack. Today the battleship still sits where it sank eight decades ago, with more than 900 dead entombed inside. Several dozen Arizona survivors have had their ashes interred on the sunken battleship so they could join their shipmates, but Potts didn't want that, according to Stratton.Stratton said many Arizona survivors shared a similar dry sense of humour. That included his own father, who was severely burned in the attack and also did not want to return to the ship as ashes in an urn.
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