MARTIN G GIVEN
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HONORED ON PANEL 38W, LINE 26 OF THE WALL

MARTIN GEHRING GIVEN

WALL NAME

MARTIN G GIVEN

PANEL / LINE

38W/26

DATE OF BIRTH

06/02/1948

CASUALTY PROVINCE

KONTUM

DATE OF CASUALTY

11/21/1968

HOME OF RECORD

NORTHFIELD

COUNTY OF RECORD

Franklin County

STATE

MA

BRANCH OF SERVICE

ARMY

RANK

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LEFT FOR MARTIN GEHRING GIVEN
POSTED ON 9.6.2022
POSTED BY: John Fabris

honoring you...

A butterfly lights beside us like a sunbeam
And for a brief moment its glory
and beauty belong to our world
But then it flies again
And though we wish it could have stayed...
We feel lucky to have seen it.
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POSTED ON 5.14.2022
POSTED BY: ANON

74

Never forgotten.

HOOAH
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POSTED ON 12.23.2018
POSTED BY: Lucy Micik

Thank You

Dear WO Martin Given,
Thank you for your service as an Utility & Light Cargo Single Rotor Helicopter Pilot. Merry Christmas. It has been too long, and it's about time for us all to acknowledge the sacrifices of those like you who answered our nation's call. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage and faithfulness. Rest in peace with the angels.
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POSTED ON 5.28.2018
POSTED BY: Norman Wood

Remembering Marty Given on Memorial Day, May 28 2018

We went to Mount Hermon School as day students and became friends. We rebuilt my old motor scooter over at your house. After 1966 we lost touch. Then I heard that you joined up to fly helicopters. Then you were killed, barely 20 years old. I think about you often Marty even 50 years later.
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POSTED ON 7.17.2017

Final Mission of WO1 Martin G. Given

On November 21, 1968, a U.S. Army helicopter UH-1D (tail number 66-16297) from the 119th Assault Helicopter Company was on a reconnaissance mission equipped with a personnel detection device for locating enemy soldiers. The operation required the aircraft to be flown at low levels over enemy terrain. The helicopter was flown over an area in Kontum Province (II Corps), RVN, that was known to have a large concentration of enemy forces. The detection device registered heavily many times revealing the enemy position. On its last pass, the aircraft came under intense enemy fire and crashed and burned. Four crewmen and two passengers were killed in the incident. The lost crewmen included aircraft commander WO1 Martin G. Given, pilot WO1 Robert L. Storey, crew chief SP5 Billie J. Ontis, and gunner SP5 Eddy G. Sumpter. The two passengers were SP4 Warren G. Haugen and SGT Charles F. Rein. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and information contained in the citation of WO1 Given’s Distinguished Flying Cross award]
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