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 was among fewer than two dozen still-living veterans who survived the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Oahu, although the exact number is unknown.

Retired Lt. Gen. Arthur Gregg, a trailblazing officer who became the Army’s first Black three-star general in 1977 and for whom the former Fort Lee in Virginia was renamed last year, died Thursday, according to the service. He was 96.

Retired Army Capt. Paul “Bud” Bucha, a Medal of Honor recipient, died Wednesday in West Haven, Conn. He was 80. He received the Medal of Honor in May 1970 for his actions during the Vietnam War.

William L. Calley Jr., a junior Army officer who became the only person convicted in connection with the My Lai Massacre of 1968, when U.S. soldiers slaughtered hundreds of unarmed South Vietnamese men, women and children in one of the darkest chapters in American military history, died April 28 at a hospice center in Gainesville, Fla. He was 80.

Lou Dobbs, the veteran TV news host and conservative commentator, has died. He was 78.

Joe Engle, the first astronaut to fly into space aboard two different winged vehicles and a test pilot for the shuttle program, has died. He was 91.

Henry N. Wilcots, 96, of Philadelphia, a retired celebrated architect, longtime collaborator with Philadelphia icon Louis I. Kahn and decorated Montford Point Marine, died June 17 of complications from age-associated ailments.

Romay Johnson Davis was the oldest surviving member of the “Six Triple Eight,” the only predominantly Black unit of the Women’s Army Corps to serve overseas during World War II. Davis died June 21 in Montgomery, Ala. She was 104.

Betty Nance Humphreys, the widow of Chief Warrant Officer 2 Benjamin Humphreys, for whom the largest overseas US military base is named, died June 10 at age 93.

Bob Schul, an Air Force veteran who was the only American distance runner to win gold in the 5,000 meters at the Olympics, has died. He was 86.