Martin Daymond Young

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12 May 2021
Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky. | By Nathan Havenner

• * Navy Fireman 2nd Class **

Martin D. Young was 21 years old when he was killed during the Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. Now, nearly 80 years later, his remains will be brought home to his native Kentucky and he'll be laid to rest on Saturday.

Young, a native of Hawesville, was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor. The ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft and sustained multiple torpedo hits before capsizing. Young was one of the 429 crewmen to die on board the ship.

Between December 1941 and June 1944, the U.S. Navy recovered the remains of the crew, and they were buried in the Halawa and Nu'uanu cemeteries.

According to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Young was unable to be identified when the American Graves Registration Service disinterred unidentified American remains in 1947. Young was joined by his fellow fallen sailors who could not be identified at the time and was reburied in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

It was not until 2015 that DPAA personnel exhumed the remains of the unknown crewman of the USS Oklahoma for additional efforts at identification. For Young's family, these efforts paid off, and his remains were identified using DNA analysis. He was officially identified and accounted for on Aug. 19, 2019, 78 years after his death.

Family members will meet at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport on Thursday to accompany Young's remains, escorted by Rolling Thunder, through his hometown and then to the Gibson and Son Funeral Home, at 315 Caroline St. in Lewisport.

The nonprofit organization, The Flagman's Mission Continues, is looking for volunteers to help place 600 American flags along the route from the funeral home to Lewisport Cemetery.