TIMOTHY H ARTMAN
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HONORED ON PANEL 33E, LINE 78 OF THE WALL

TIMOTHY HAROLD ARTMAN

WALL NAME

TIMOTHY H ARTMAN

PANEL / LINE

33E/78

DATE OF BIRTH

08/13/1944

CASUALTY PROVINCE

LONG AN

DATE OF CASUALTY

01/08/1968

HOME OF RECORD

HIALEAH

COUNTY OF RECORD

Miami-Dade County

STATE

FL

BRANCH OF SERVICE

ARMY

RANK

CWO

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LEFT FOR TIMOTHY HAROLD ARTMAN
POSTED ON 11.23.2013
POSTED BY: Curt Carter [email protected]

Remembering An American Hero

Dear CWO Timothy Harold Artman, sir

As an American, I would like to thank you for your service and for your sacrifice made on behalf of our wonderful country. The youth of today could gain much by learning of heroes such as yourself, men and women whose courage and heart can never be questioned.

May God allow you to read this, and may He allow me to someday shake your hand when I get to Heaven to personally thank you. May he also allow my father to find you and shake your hand now to say thank you; for America, and for those who love you.

With respect, and the best salute a civilian can muster for you, Sir

Curt Carter
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POSTED ON 4.23.2013
POSTED BY: Stephen Hood Greene

Never to be forgotten

Tim, you and I were in the same flight school class, our serial numbers are exactly 60 apart. I know that none of us during those great days of flight school at Wolters and then Rucker ever thought our lives could end in the next few months. Now over 40 years later, I am a graying old man and you are the dashing young aviator. Your valiant sacrifice lives with so many of us...

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POSTED ON 2.20.2013

Final Mission of U.S. Army helicopter UH-1D tail number 65-09866

During an Eagle Flight, this aircraft was in the fourth position for the first element into an LZ and was hit by automatic weapons fire. At about 50 feet from touchdown an RPG blew out the left front of the aircraft, knocking out CAPT Dismukes and mortally wounding the aircraft commander, WO1 Timothy H. Artman. PFC Wetzel, the gunner, and SP4 Jarvis, the CE, were thrown from the aircraft when it crashed. When they returned to try to help the pilots, another RPG hit the aircraft wounding Wetzel. They did get the pilots out of the wreck but WO1 Artman died from his wounds. On January 8, 1968 we were doing Eagle flights supporting the 9th Infantry Division (I don't remember the unit). We were sitting on the ground at a place called the French Fort eating C's when we got the order to crank 'em up. We loaded up the slicks and flew to the LZ. As we were about 1 minute out of the LZ, and flying in a heavy right formation we received orders to go in heavy left. Gary Wetzel's ship, piloted by WO1 Timothy H. Artman, switched places with mine. He ended up the trail ship on the left and my ship piloted by a Japanese CWO was the trail ship on the right. I had taken sporadic fire before but was totally unprepared for the amount of fire we received flying into the LZ. I saw so many big orange fireballs flying through the air as we flew into the LZ that I really had no idea what was going on. I knew that we were in big trouble because there was a lot of excited radio traffic flying in. I could not fire as I was on the inside of the formation and ended up being an observer. As we came into the LZ Gary's ship was hit in the AC's door with an RPG about 4 feet off the deck. They went in immediately and as soon as they hit I saw two more explosions inside the ship and troops came flying out. As we sat down to insert our troops, I said to my AC 'I have my aid bag, I'm gonna go help.' The AC replied 'If you step on foot outside this ship I'll shoot your ass. You're here to protect this ship.” We flew out of the LZ leaving two ships in the LZ and another, carrying Jimmy Banicki, was hit flying out and set down somewhere outside the LZ. The rest is, as they say, history. Tim Artman was critically wounded and died in the LZ later that night. Gary was awarded the DFC the next day in the hospital and subsequently was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. We figured out later that the artillery and air strikes had prepped the wrong side of the river and left for us a horseshoe shaped ambush with three .50 caliber machine guns, more RPG's than we could count, and loads of small arms fire. I didn't see Gary for 18 years. In July of 1986 I had the opportunity to travel to Chicago for the Welcome home parade and weekend and finally had an opportunity to sit down and talk with Gary. I had felt and still feel guilty that I didn't just grab my aid bag and run to help him, but Gary said to me 'The AC was right and you did as you should have.' DocBac Si' Don Reynolds, September 1997 [Taken from vhpa.org]

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POSTED ON 12.31.2010

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Rest in peace with the warriors.
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POSTED ON 9.12.2009
POSTED BY: Robert Sage

We Remember

Tim is buried at Forest Hills Cemetery in Chattanooga, TN.
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