African American, Company C, Alaska Highway. Born: 6 October 1917, Powder Springs, Cobb, Georgia. Died: 19 January 1989, Atlanta, Fulton, GA. Enlisted: 12 May 1941 at Ft. Benning, GA and discharged 7 October 1945.
Education: grammar school. Civilian occupation: trucker. He preferred to be called Willard and not Jesse. His father was Dewitt T. Young (1891-1952) a farm laborer and his mother was Maude L. F. Radford-Young (1899-1962), a domestic. His wife was Lucy O. Young (1921-1994).
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