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Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970.
Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Enrique Martinez.

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ENRIQUE MARTINEZ

Corporal · U.S. Army

June 11, 1948 – May 21, 1969

Service record

Enrique Martinez, of El Paso, Texas, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on May 21, 1969, in Lam Dong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 68 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 24W · Line 68

Position of Panel 24W 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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
173 AIRBORNE BDE
Born
June 11, 1948
Home of record
El Paso, Texas (El Paso County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 21, 1969
Age
20
Province
Lam Dong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

51 names on the Wall carry the date May 21, 1969; two of them were lost in Lam Dong Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 29 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 24W, Line 68

Same unit, same day

From El Paso

All 126 names from El Paso →

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.