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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Guy Wayne Martin.

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GUY WAYNE MARTIN

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

November 23, 1933 – May 25, 1968

Service record

Guy Wayne Martin, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 25, 1968, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 68W, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 68W · Line 6

Position of Panel 68W 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
Staff Sergeant (SSG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
November 23, 1933
Home of record
Albuquerque, New Mexico (Bernalillo County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 25, 1968
Age
34
Province
Kontum
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

89 names on the Wall carry the date May 25, 1968; 20 of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 99 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 68W, Line 6

Same unit, same day

From Albuquerque

All 111 names from Albuquerque →

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.