Elmer Calvin Smith, who as an 18-year-old soldier stationed at an Army airfield survived the Japanese surprise attack on Hawaii in 1941, died Friday at age 101.
Smith, originally from Upstate New York, was living in Middletown, Ohio, and receiving hospice care, according to an obituary posted on the web site for Jefferson Memorial Funeral Home in Birmingham, Ala.
Smith was among fewer than two dozen still-living veterans who survived the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Oahu, although the exact number is unknown…