Young, Carroll Fletcher

Rank and Name, Radioman Second Class Carroll Fletcher Young.

Unit/Placed in, USS Atik (AK-101) Q-Ship, United States Naval Reserve.

Q-ships, also known as Q-boats, decoy vessels, special service ships, or mystery ships, were heavily armed merchant ships with concealed weaponry, designed to lure submarines into making surface attacks. This gave Q-ships the chance to open fire and sink them.

Carroll is born approx. on 1918 in Kanawha, West Virginia.

Father, Thomas H. Young.

Mother, Alma Elizabeth Coffey.

Sister(s), Margaret Young.

Brother(s), Harless Young.

Carroll enlisted the service in West Virginia with service number # 2656645.

Carroll was KIA when the U-boat shot a torpedo into Atik’s machinery spaces on 27 March 1942, he is honored with a Purple Heart, Good Conduct Medal, Expeditionary Medal, American Campaign Medal, Navy & Marine Presidential Unit Citation, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.

Carroll is mentioned at East Coast Memorial, Manhattan, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA.

Walls of the missing.

Thanks to, https://uboat.net/allies/merchants/1476.html

https://uboat.net/allies/merchants/crews/ship1476.html

Jean Louis Vijgen, ww2-Pacific.com ww2-europe.com

Air Force Info, Rolland Swank.

ABMC Website, https://abmc.gov

Marines Info, https://missingmarines.com/ Geoffrey Roecker

Seabees History Bob Smith https://seabeehf.org/

Navy Info, http://navylog.navymemorial.org

POW Info, http://www.mansell.com Dwight Rider and Wes injerd.

Philippine Info, http://www.philippine-scouts.org/ Robert Capistrano