The last surviving officer of the USS Arizona, one of the ships that was bombed in Japan's 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, has died at the age of 100 at a nursing facility in Northern California, his son said on Facebook.
Joseph Langdell was a 27-year-old ensign who was sleeping in quarters on shore when bombs rained down on the Arizona on Dec. 7, 1941, an attack that would draw the United States into World War II, according to a biography posted on a historical website honoring those who served aboard the ship.
"Rushing outside, he witnessed the Arizona sink in just nine minutes," the website said.
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