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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Frank Martinez.

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FRANK MARTINEZ

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

March 24, 1950 – November 18, 1968

Service record

Frank Martinez, of New York, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 18, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 38W, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 38W · Line 7

Position of Panel 38W 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
March 24, 1950
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 18, 1968
Age
18
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

16 names on the Wall carry the date November 18, 1968; five of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 38W, Line 7

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.