Horace Melton
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Possibly killed in action, and buried overseas.
Age at Death: 17
Image Source: newsprint from Yandal collection
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James Moore
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Missing and presumed dead.
Age at Death: Unavailable
Image Source: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
John McFayden
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Reported missing since his ship sunk 200 miles off the East Coast. The one gold star on the service flag in Anderson Auditorium in Montreat, NC is in his honor.
Age at Death: Unavailable
Image Source: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Kenneth Menzies
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Died while in service.
Age at Death: Unavailable
Image Source: Davidson College Bulletin
John Moore
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Died of a heart attack. In the Army since World War I, he was in command of the 22nd Detachment, School Troops, Infantry School at the time of his death.
Age at Death: Unavailable
Image Source: Davidson College Bulletin
Bill McGinnis
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Volunteered to swim a line to shore through the icy waves, trying to save the foundering USS Pollux off the Newfoundland coast.
Age at Death: 22
Image Source: Carolina Room photo
Lemuel Mewborne
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He had been overseas two months at the time of his death.
Age at Death: 21
Image Source: The Charlotte Observer 3-25-1945
Randolph Moore
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed over Germany.
Age at Death: Unavailable
Image Source: The Charlotte Observer 5-25-1944
Robert McIlwaine
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed on his first mission in action in Saipin.
Age at Death: 22
Image Source: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Arnott Meyer
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He received notice that he had become a father and went from the island of Kauai to Oahu to tell his own father. His mother had been evacuated to Hollywood after the Pearl Harbor attack. After he visited with his father, he hurried back to his boat so that he could return to Kauai. On his way home, his automobile skidded and rolled, and Arnott was killed.
Age at Death: Unavailable
Image Source: The Charlotte Observer 11-21-1944