Lauren Bruner, a survivor of the USS Arizona which was attacked on Dec 7, 1941, holding a 1940 photo of himself at his home in La Mirada, California, in July this year. He died in September at the age of 98. Divers will place the ashes of Bruner in the wreckage of his ship during a ceremony in Pearl Harbour, Hawaii. - AP
Los Angeles: It was an attack that shaped history, leaving more than 2,400 Americans dead and forcing the United States to enter a war it had been reluctant to join.
On Sunday (Dec 8 - 3am Malaysian time), the 78th anniversary of the 1941 sneak attack by Japan on Pearl Harbour, the remains of one of the survivors of the assault will be interred on his sunken ship, the USS Arizona.
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