Mahoning County OhArchives Obituaries.....Root, Melvin December 7, 1942 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jennifer L. Neff ffen@zoominternet.net May 29, 2006, 10:35 am Mahoning Dispatch, Fri, 6 Feb 1942 ROOT, Melvin Home Happenings - Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Root, Palmyra Road, have been advised by the Navy Department that their son, Melvin, was killed during the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7th. Root, a seaman on one of the ships destroyed at the time was reported missing December 23. Mahoning Dispatch, Fri, 9 July 1943 Joseph W. Cook Melvin L. Root This week’s issue of Life Magazine contains a list of names of 12, 987 American men who have died in the first 18 months of World War II. Included in the list are the names of two local men, Joseph W. Cook and Melvin L. Root. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/mahoning/obits/root837ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 1.2 Kb