Smith's rate is shown as EMFA. This stands for Electrician's Mate Fireman Apprentice. However the rate of Fireman Apprentice was not created until April 2, 1948. The proper title in 1941 would have been Fireman Second Class.
The driver's license for Smith shows he was born in January 1925. The type of bogus enlistment he describes (enlisting in February 1941 at age 16 using his 18-year-old brother's birth certificate) did not take place until after the December 1941 attack on the United States. Even if what he alleges had been true, he would not be eligible for a burial due to the fraudulent enlistment.