Ken Potts: Last of the USS Arizona Survivors Passes Away at 102

Ken Potts, one of the last two survivors of the USS Arizona, passed away at 102 years old. He was born in 1918 and served as a crane operator shuttling supplies to Arizona on December 7th, 1941 when Pearl Harbor was attacked.

Potts’ service during World War II earned him several awards, including an American Defense Service Medal and Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with three bronze stars. After his time in service, he returned home to California where he worked for many years before retiring from his job as a machinist at Lockheed Martin in 1982.

The memory of Ken Potts will live on through those who knew him best; friends, family members, colleagues, and fellow veterans alike have all expressed their admiration for this brave man’s life story over recent days since news broke out about his passing away. His courage throughout WWII is something that will be remembered forever by those whose lives were touched by it or even just heard about it through stories like these, which are shared around every year come December 7th – reminding us all never to forget what happened that day 77 years ago today when Pearl Harbor was attacked so unexpectedly yet so tragically too.