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GUADALUPE MARTINEZ
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
May 4, 1935 – November 17, 1967
Service recordGuadalupe Martinez, of Laredo, Texas, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 17, 1967, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30E · Line 10
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- May 4, 1935
- Home of record
- Laredo, Texas (Webb County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 17, 1967
- Age
- 32
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date November 17, 1967; ten of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
He died in Kon Tum Province while the Battle of Đắk Tô was under way. Around Đắk Tô in the Central Highlands (3–23 November 1967), the 4th Infantry Division and the 173rd Airborne Brigade fought North Vietnamese regiments for the hills along the border, ending with the assault on Hill 875 on Thanksgiving Day. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 30E, Line 10
- MAURICE BROOKSSergeant · November 17, 1967
- JOHN THOMAS KOZIOLSpecialist Four · November 17, 1967
- WILLIAM E MCDONALDMajor · November 17, 1967
- WILLIAM DARRELL MCGRATHCaptain · November 17, 1967
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD PAUL TEEVENSSergeant · Panel 30E, Line 11
From Laredo
- HERIBERTO ARNALDO GARCIACaptain · November 8, 1964
- RODOLFO GUADALUPE GONZALEZSpecialist Four · November 11, 1966
- ALEJANDRO GARCIA JRSpecialist Four · December 29, 1966
- JAVIER ARTURO E SANCHEZStaff Sergeant · May 3, 1967
- RAUL VILLASpecialist Four · May 9, 1967
- JORGE SOSAPrivate First Class · June 3, 1967
- JUAN JOSE GONZALEZPrivate First Class · June 15, 1967
- IGNACIO TORRES JRSergeant · November 18, 1967
- HOMERO PEREZStaff Sergeant · December 1, 1967
- FLORENTINO CANTU JRSpecialist Four · February 21, 1968
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.