World War II Honoree

Louis Herbert Young

Branch of Service

U.S. Marine Corps

Hometown

Morrisonville, Illinois

Honored By

Orville L. Kline

Rank: Private First Class. Inducted into the United States Marine Corps June 1, 1943 at Chicago, Illinois, with recruit training assigned to the Second 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 combat training. Served as a Rifleman with the Twenty-Ninth Replacement Draft Battalion, assigned to the Ninth Marines an element of the Third Marine Division. His division participated in the amphibious assault on the Volcanic Island of Iwo Jima (Battle Dates: February 19-March 26, 1945) Code Name: Operation Detachment. He died of wounds encountered on the battlefield, during a combat engagement with the Imperial Japanese forces, and buried at sea March 4, 1945. In remembrance of the brave, his name is permanently inscribed in the tablets of the missing, memorialized at Honolulu Memorial Location: Honolulu, Hawaii. In his Memory and Honor, a cenotaph memorial has been placed at the Saint Maurice Cemetery in Morrisonville, Illinois. This American Patriot was awarded the Purple Heart posthumously, for his ultimate sacrifice in defense of his country.