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DAVID LEE MARTIN JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
February 22, 1947 – August 23, 1967
Service recordDavid Lee Martin JR, of Gustine, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 23, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25E · Line 33
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- February 22, 1947
- Home of record
- Gustine, California (Merced County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 23, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date August 23, 1967; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 50 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 25E, Line 33
- PAUL EDWARD HAHNLance Corporal · August 23, 1967
- WILLIAM DAVID HANEYCorporal · August 23, 1967
- CHARLES LANE JRCaptain · August 23, 1967
- WILFREDO PUMAREJO-COLONSpecialist Four · August 23, 1967
Same unit, same day
- WILFREDO PUMAREJO-COLONSpecialist Four · Panel 25E, Line 33
- COLEMAN JOHN KANE JRPrivate First Class · Panel 25E, Line 35
- JOHNNY CECIL WHEELERSpecialist Four · Panel 25E, Line 36
From Gustine
- LARRY PAUL LUSSIERPrivate First Class · October 28, 1965
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.