PVT Willie Eugene Young

PVT Willie Eugene Young was born 15 Jan 1925 in Hardeman County, Tennessee. He was the 2nd of 5 children born to Eddie Simon and Mamie E. (Rhodes) Young. His father farmed to support the family. Willie would finish his education with the 6th grade and then continued farming with his father.  

Willie was drafted in February 1943 and after training was sent to England in April 1944 and assigned to B Company 116th Infantry. With only a couple of months of training PVT Young was a part of the amphibious assault on Omaha Beach. He was killed in action on 6 Jun 1944 as B Company landed on the beach.

PVT Young was repatriated in 1948 and re-interred with family in the New Union Baptist Church Cemetery in Toone, Tennessee.