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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Armando Daniel Martinez.

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ARMANDO DANIEL MARTINEZ

Private First Class · U.S. Army

August 29, 1947 – July 31, 1968

Service record

Armando Daniel Martinez, of San Antonio, Texas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 31, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 50W, Line 39 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 50W · Line 39

Position of Panel 50W 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. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Central Office Switchboard Operator (72C)
Unit (as recorded)
1 SIGNAL BDE
Born
August 29, 1947
Home of record
San Antonio, Texas (Bexar County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 31, 1968
Age
20
Province
Gia Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

13 names on the Wall carry the date July 31, 1968; he was the only one lost in Gia Dinh Province that day. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “1 SIGNAL BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 50W, Line 39

From San Antonio

All 287 names from San Antonio →

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.