CANFIELD — The War Veterans Museum in Canfield has two items related to a life lost in the attack on Pearl Harbor.

One is a plaque on the Wall of Honor and the other is a painting focusing on the USS Arizona. Each item has a name behind it and a life cut short while serving the cause of freedom.

The brass plaque is located in the museum parking lot, 23 E. Main St., on the Wall of Honor. The Wall contains names of veterans, soldiers and sailors who served and are being remembered by family and loved ones.

The plaque in memory of Seaman 1st Class Melvin L. Root is the only one on the Wall of Honor that contains the U.S. Navy seal. Root, a native of Canfield Township, was among those who served on the USS Arizona. His family’s farm was located near the property of the present-day Mahoning County Career and Technical Center on North Palmyra Road.

According to information museum historians found, Root enlisted in the U.S. Navy on Oct. 9, 1940. He was among those killed by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

“He is one of two we have in our archives who was killed in the Pearl Harbor attack,” said War Veterans Museum curator Doug Speece.

The second individual is Private Eugene B. Bubb from York County, Pa. Artifacts representing Bubb include two paintings from artist Paul Barrass.

The first is a painting remembering the USS Arizona with the ship tilting on its side and the present-day memorial site where the big ship went down. The second is the same painting, except it has Bubb’s face added in the upper right-hand corner.

Research was also done on Bubb, who was found to be one of five killed at a nearby fort.

Bubb enlisted in the U.S. Army in July of 1940. He was assigned to Charlie Battery, 41st Coastal Artillery at Fort Kamehameha, Oahu, Hawaii, which is at the entrance to Pearl Harbor.

Bubb along with Corporal Claude Bryant, Private First Class Oreste Datorre and Private Donat Duquette Jr., lost his life after a Japanese Zero was shot down and crashed in the fort.

A marker at the Fort bears the names of the four men. Bubb was said to be the first soldier from York County to be killed in WWII.