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Note: **Birth date from Moore County Register of Deeds web page.
**Melvin was 1 of 74 men who lost thier lives when the Australian Aircraft Carrier Melborne ran
over the USS Frank E. Evans, DD 754, in pre-dawn operations in the South China Sea in June
1969. The front 1/2 of the Destroyer was torn away and sank in secounds as the Melborne ran
over her. Though his body was never recovered his family did place a grave marker at Mt. Hope
Cemetery in Southern Pines, N.C. To this day, over 35 years later, there are those who are strugling
to get the names of those who lost thier lives that day on the Viet Nam "Wall".
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