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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Adolph Alfred Martinez.

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ADOLPH ALFRED MARTINEZ

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

October 30, 1949 – May 2, 1968

Service record

Adolph Alfred Martinez, of Denver, Colorado, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 2, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 54E, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 54E · Line 11

Position of Panel 54E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
October 30, 1949
Home of record
Denver, Colorado (Denver County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 2, 1968
Age
18
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

113 names on the Wall carry the date May 2, 1968; 73 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 54E, Line 11

From Denver

All 183 names from Denver →

Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.