Up Front Scenario SC/1: Rodger Young's Assault
By Steve Cook <scook@esscom.com>
New Georgia, Solomon Islands, 31 July 1943

American Attackers:1-7, 9 (Myers is PVT Young), DC
Japanese Defenders: 16, 19, 21

Attacker Sets Up and Plays First.             Number of Decks: 1

No cards are removed from the Action Deck.

Special Rules:

A.1 Jungle Rules (47) are in effect.

A.2 The Sniper, Minefield, and Marsh cards are treated as Cower cards.

A.3 The defender receives the Pillbox to place on Group B. All the
defending player's Personality Cards start in the B group.

A.4 The attacker sets up all of his groups in Woods by using the first
Woods cards revealed by a random search through the deck sufficient to
house all of his groups.  PVT Young must be place alone in Group B.
All of the attacking Personalities begin the game Pinned.

A.5 The defending force is Elite.

A.6 Young's Special Rules: 
  1. The first time Young is KIAed or Routed, he is not killed but
     merely Wounded. The wounded chit is placed on him and he remains
     in play with pinned status.
  2. Young gets one "free" Hero card. This ability can be used any
     time by playing any card face down directly into the discard
     pile. 
  3. Young can infiltrate while wounded.

Victory Conditions: - The attacker wins immediately if the pillbox is
vacated or when PVT Young successfully detonates the Demo Charge in
the pillbox.  The attack resolution does not need to be made.  The
defender wins immediately if he kills one or more attackers, or at the
end of the time limit by avoiding the attacker's victory conditions.

Background:
Young, Rodger W., Private, 148th Infantry, 37th Infantry Division
(the Ohio Buckeyes); born Tiffin Ohio, 28 April 1918; died 31 July
1943, On the island New Georgia, Solomons, South Pacific, while
single-handedly attacking and destroying an enemy machine-gun
pillbox. His platoon had been pinned down by intense fire from this
pillbox; Private Young was wounded in the first burst. He crawled
toward the Pillbox, was wounded a second time but continued to
advance, firing his rifle as he did so. He closed on the pillbox,
attacked and destroyed it with hand grenades, but in so doing he was
wounded a third time and killed.

His bold and gallant action in the face of overwhelming odds enabled
his teammates to escape without loss; he was awarded posthumously the
Medal of Honor.