World War II Honoree
Killed In Action
Marvin Earl Young
Branch of Service
U.S. Marine Corps
Hometown
Flatwoods, Kentucky
Honored By
Orville L. Kline
Rank: Private First Class. He was inducted into the United States Marine Corps January 13, 1942 at Chicago, Illinois, with recruit training at the Marine Corps Base in San Diego, California. After his graduation from boot camp, he was transferred to Camp Pendleton Oceanside, California for combat training. He served as a Rifleman, assigned to Hotel Company, Third Battalion, Second Marines and an element of the Second Marine Division. His division participated in the amphibious assault on Betio Island, Tarawa Atoll Gilbert Islands Code Name: Operation Galvanic Location: Central Pacific Theater of Operations. On Saturday, November 20, 1943 he was mortally wounded, during offensive operations against the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces, with burial in the Betio Lone Palm battlefield cemetery. In the post-war era, this Marines’ family requested that he be buried with Military Honors at the Bellefonte Memorial Gardens Cemetery located at Flatwoods, Kentucky. In his Memory and Honor, this American Patriot was awarded the Purple Heart posthumously, for his Heroism and ultimate sacrifice.