Rank and Name, Seaman First Class Alfred Horace Young.
Unit/Placed in, USS Birmingham City American Steam Merchant, United States Navy.
Alfred is born approx. on 1922 in South Carolina.
Mother, Ella Young.
Sister(s), Helen, Mary and Estelle Young.
Brother(s), Guy Young.
Alfred enlisted the service in South Carolina with service number # 5521320.
Alfred was KIA on Route to Rio de Janeiro, when the U-124 fired a torpedo which struck the Birmingham City on the port side amidships at the #3 hatch and the ship began to blaze and sunk near Dutch Guiana on 9 Jan. 1943, 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.
Alfred 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/ship/2575.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
National Historian
Navy Seal Memorial, http://www.navysealmemorials.com
Family Info, https://www.familysearch.org
Info, https://www.pacificwrecks.com/
Medals Info, https://www.honorstates.org
Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com
Tank Destroyers, http://www.bensavelkoul.nl/
The German U Boat-124
Sunk on 2 April 1943 in the North Atlantic west of Oporto, Portugal, in position 41.02N, 15.39W, by depth charges from the British corvette HMS Stonecrop and the British sloop HMS Black Swan. 53 dead (all hands lost).
