by Nancy A. Nease - 10 December 2011 - Published 3:29pm PST - Updated 13 December 2011 2:03am PST

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He didn't make it to the 70th Pearl Harbor Anniversary Commemoration ceremonies. He had to cancel just two weeks before he was due to leave for Hawaii; health issues.

Glenn Harvey Lane of Oak Harbor, WA passed away this morning, December 10, 2011. He was stationed onboard the USS Arizona during the December 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Lane was not just a survivor of one ship, USS Arizona; he survived a second ship, USS Nevada.

"We started to go to the third deck and 'General Quarters' sounded. We had a G.Q. station which was a repair station aft on the quarter deck." Lane recalled.

Read more: USS Arizona Survivor Glenn Lane dead at 93

Associated Press
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 10:35 AM PST
Updated today at 11:02 AM PST

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — About 120 survivors of the Pearl Harbor bombing commemorated the Japanese attack and the thousands who lost their lives that day 70 years ago by observing a moment of silence on Wednesday.

During the ceremony, a group of survivors of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack announced that they would disband at the end of the month. William Muehleib, president of the Pearl Harbors Association, cited age and poor health of the remaining members.

Read more: Pearl Harbor survivors group: We will disband

Left to Right: Lewis Conter, Loren Bruner, Donald Stratton, John Anderson,
Joseph Langdell, Edward Wentzlaff and Lonnie Cook.

USS Arizona Survivors pose for pictures in front of a replica of the ship during a tour of the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument in Honolulu, Hawaii. 6 December 2011.

There are 18 known living USS Arizona Survivors.

December 6, 2011 Los Angeles Times - by Richard Simon in Washington

On the eve of the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Arizona officials have their sights on a rusty gun barrel sitting in a Navy yard in Virginia.
 
It’s a barrel from the battleship Arizona, which was sunk on Dec. 7, 1941. The attack, which killed about 2,400 U.S. service members, including 1,177 aboard the Arizona, catapulted the United States into World War II...

The barrel was on the Arizona from 1925 to 1938. It was removed for the relining and sent to Dahlgren for testing. It was installed on the battleship Nevada in 1942, probably as part of the ship's repair after the Pearl Harbor attack, and was used in the D-Day invasion...
 
It was removed from the Nevada near the end of the war for relining again and has remained in a storage area at Dahlgren since then...

Read full story here: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/12/arizona-seeks-gun-from-uss-arizona.html