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Rodger Wilton Young (April 28, 1918 – July 31, 1943) was a United States Army infantryman from Ohio during World War II. Born in the small town of Tiffin, Ohio, in 1932, Young suffered a sports injury in high school that led to his becoming nearly deaf and blind.
The ballad is an elegy for Army Private Rodger Wilton Young, who died after rushing a Japanese machine-gun nest on 31 July 1943, and is largely based on the citation for Young's posthumous Medal of Honor
May 3, 2008 · The Ballad of Rodger Young. bennie777. 61 subscribers. 1.2K. 123K views 16 years ago. Dedicated to Infantry Men and Women everywhere, and the Corporal that managed to sneak the song onto my pc...
Nov 15, 2013 · Rodger Wilton Young (April 28, 1918 -- July 31, 1943) was an American infantryman in the U.S. Army during World War II. He was killed on the island of New Georgia while...
Among the young soldiers of the Ohio National Guard departing the shores of their homeland for combat in the Pacific, was a small-built, be-speckled young man named Staff Sergeant Rodger Young. The SS President Coolidge transported these fresh troops, most of which were former Ohio National Guardsmen, first to Fiji.
Unlike most – or perhaps all – of the other 3,473 Medal of Honor recipients in U.S. history, Rodger Young was deaf. Born in Tiffin, Ohio in 1918, Young was diminutive in stature but big in heart — a gifted athlete whose tenacity more than made up for his lack of physical size.
Jul 13, 2016 · Rodger Young had a life, a personality, a history–a life forged in the fields, schools, and households of communities in northwestern Ohio. His life mattered—to his friends, family, and neighbors, to the men in his unit, to the girls he dated. He did not exist in isolation.
