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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Arthur Justilien Martin.

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ARTHUR JUSTILIEN MARTIN

Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy

October 14, 1943 – June 11, 1969

Service record

Arthur Justilien Martin, of Marrero, Louisiana, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on June 11, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 22W · Line 23

Position of Panel 22W 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. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
Service
Regular
Born
October 14, 1943
Home of record
Marrero, Louisiana

Casualty

Date of death
June 11, 1969
Age
25
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Drowning

Context · from the records

What was happening

64 names on the Wall carry the date June 11, 1969; nine of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 22W, Line 23

From Marrero

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.