Forrest Roy Slavens^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14]}

1915 - 1945  (30 years)

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• Name	Forrest Roy Slavens  [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14]
  Birth	22 Feb 1915	Denver, Denver, Colorado, USA   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Also Known As	Roy Slavens
  Residence	1920	Prairie, Montgomery, Missouri, USA   [7]
  	With his grandparents and a ?brother/cousin? named Forrest Reginald Slavens, age 10.
  Residence	1930	Middletown, Middletown, Montgomery, Missouri, USA   [8]
  Residence	1939	Denver, Colorado, USA   [5]
  Residence	Apr 1940	Kansas City, Missouri, USA   [2]
  Military Service	Oct 1940	Durango, LaPlatte, Colorado, USA   [3, 4, 6, 9, 14]
  	WWII Registration; Signalman 2nd Class in U.S. Navy Reserve; went missing in action in Mediterranean Sea off North Africa Apr 1945, awarded Purple Heart
  Death	21 April 1945	At Sea off North Africa   [6, 9, 10, 14]
  	A military accounting source gives death date as 20 Apr 1944. Missing in action in Mediterranean Sea off North Africa.
  Burial	Carthage, Tunisia   [9, 10]
  	North Africa American Cemetery, Tablets of the Missing section
  Person ID	I342324204954	Tripp Family Genealogical Website

  
  

  Family	Mary Paula Tripp,   b. 6 Nov 1913, Cortez, Montezuma, Colorado, USA d. 17 Jan 2008, Canoga Park, Los Angeles, California, USA (Age 94 years)
  Children	1. Living
  Family ID	F4719	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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