Young America was a C2-S-B1 freighter. Moore Dry Dock at Oakland built her as Maritime Commission hull 286 (yard hull 222) and delivered her on 30 March 1943. The Army took her as a troopship in 1943. This is the 1943 freighter, not the 1970 container ship of the same name.
She sailed in the Northern Garrison Group, Task Group 51.6, carrying defense troops for Roi and Namur. She was not sunk. She was sold in 1948 and scrapped in 1968. This account rests on the Marshalls order of battle and the Maritime Commission build lists used on this site. No separate history of this ship was found, so nothing beyond those records is claimed here.