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DONALD LYNWOOD MARTINEZ
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 23, 1943 – April 17, 1967
Service recordDonald Lynwood Martinez, of Tazewell, Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 17, 1967, in Long Khanh Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 41
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- General Vehicle Repairman (63C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- January 23, 1943
- Home of record
- Tazewell, Virginia (Tazewell County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 17, 1967
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Long Khanh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date April 17, 1967; three of them were lost in Long Khanh Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 41
- GRAHAM RAY HICKLENPrivate First Class · April 17, 1967
- EDWARD MICHAEL HOWELLSergeant First Class · April 17, 1967
- ROYD STEVE KERLEY JRSpecialist Four · April 17, 1967
- JULIO MASSO-PEREZPrivate First Class · April 17, 1967
Same unit, same day
- ALBERT FRANKLIN CLEVELANDPrivate · Panel 18E, Line 39
- ROYD STEVE KERLEY JRSpecialist Four · Panel 18E, Line 41
- JOSE HERNANDEZ QUINTEROSpecialist Four · Panel 18E, Line 42
From Tazewell
- ROBERT LEE LAIRDStaff Sergeant · June 28, 1965
- JOHN RAYMOND BOWLING SRSpecialist Four · October 31, 1966
- WILLIS LEONARD MCBRIDESergeant · October 9, 1967
- JAMES TIPTON ELSWICK JRPrivate First Class · May 12, 1969
- PAUL FREDERICK SAYERSSergeant · April 14, 1970
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.