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HARRELD PIRTLE MARTIN
Captain · U.S. Air Force
March 8, 1941 – August 23, 1968
Service recordHarreld Pirtle Martin, of Cromwell, Kentucky, served as a Captain in the U.S. Air Force. He died on August 23, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 47W, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47W · Line 48
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Captain (CAPT)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- March 8, 1941
- Home of record
- Cromwell, Kentucky (Ohio County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 23, 1968
- Age
- 27
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
111 names on the Wall carry the date August 23, 1968; 51 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 47W, Line 48
- EDWARD LOPEZSpecialist Four · August 23, 1968
- HAYWOOD MAHONE JRPrivate First Class · August 23, 1968
- CHESTER HOWARD MAYCorporal · August 23, 1968
- ROBERT GAIL MILLERPrivate First Class · August 23, 1968
From Cromwell
- JERRY WAYNE SHAINSergeant · April 4, 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.