World War II Honoree

Samuel Adam Young

Branch of Service

U.S. Marine Corps

Hometown

Casper, Wyoming

Honored By

Orville L. Kline

Rank: Sergeant. He was inducted into the United States Marine Corps December 12, 1941 at Cheyenne, Wyoming, with recruit training, assigned to the Ninth Recruit Battalion, Training Regiment; Marine Corps Base in San Diego, California. Upon his graduation from Boot Camp, he was transferred to Camp Pendleton in Oceanside, California for his combat training. After his infantry training, he was selected to attend the Tank Fleet Marine Force Training Center, Camp Elliott, California. Served as a Tank Crewman with the Twenty-Second Marine Regiment in the North Pacific Theater of Operations, assigned to the Second Separate Tank Company, and Fifth Amphibious Corps. His regiment participated in the Battle of Eniwetok Atoll (Battle Dates: February 17-23, 1944) Code name: Operation Flintlock, Marshall Islands Campaign. Reported missing in action, lost at sea Thursday, February 22, 1944 during combat operations against the Imperial Japanese forces. In remembrance of the brave, his name is permanently inscribed in the tablets of the missing, memorialized at the Honolulu National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, ‘Punchbowl’ Hawaii. This American Patriot was awarded the Purple Heart posthumously, for his ultimate sacrifice in defense of his country.