Faye McIntyre was born in 1909 and lived in Elgin, Oregon, with her parents, Alvis and Lucy McIntyre. Private Harold Young joined the United States Army in the summer of 1942 and served as a driver for the Quartermaster Corps at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, until mid-1943, when he transferred to Camp Butner, North Carolina. He trained with the Signal Corps at Camp Butner until July 1943, when poor eyesight led to his transfer to the CMP Casual Detachment, a noncombatant unit. He married between September 1942 and June 1943.
From the guide to the Harold Young letters, Young, Harold letters, 1942-1943, (William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan)