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Personal info

Full name
WHITE, Melvin Jay
Date of birth
19 May 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
Richmond, Madison County, Kentucky
Hometown
Richmond, Madison County, Kentucky

Military service

Service number
35803716
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
1st Battalion,
507th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
C Company
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
8 January 1945
Place of death
Near Bastogne, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
E 9 47

Immediate family

Members
Nelson White (father)
Florence E. (Young) White (mother)
Mary N. White (sister)
Nelson White Jr. (brother)
Loraine White (sister)
Charles B. White (brother)
Johnny M. White (brother)
Billie L. White (brother)
Moses G. White (brother)
Nellie D. (Knopp) White (wife)

More information

Pfc Melvin J. White was a truck driver for Checker Stores before he enlisted in Cincinnati, Ohio, on 7 June 1943. He was sent overseas in May 1944.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Grand-Failly, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / JM Anderson Tree, www.findagrave.com – Coleman / Rick Herbst – The Cincinnati Enquirer - 25 January 1945, ww2-airborne.us
Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Luxembourg American Cemetery / Rick Herbst, www.ancestry.com – Russell White