# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rodger-young
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:53:56.970Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rodger-young"
name: "Rodger Young"
slug: "rodger-young"
description: "Rodger Wilton Young 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. Despite this, he was able to pass the exams necessary to enter the Ohio National Guard. Soon after the United States entered World War II, Young's company was activated as part of the U.S. Army. Soon after his activation, in 1943, Young was killed on the island of New Georgia in Solomon Islands while helping his platoon withdraw from a Japanese ambush. For his actions, he was posthumously awarded the United States' highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor."
tagline: "Medal of Honor recipient (1918–1943)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rodger_Young.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1918-04-28"
deathDate: "1943-07-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.542386388909482
  historical:           12.061668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump