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HOYLE MARTIN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 6, 1945 – March 7, 1968
Service recordHoyle Martin, of Spartanburg, South Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 7, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 43E, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43E · Line 46
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Basic (13A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- September 6, 1945
- Home of record
- Spartanburg, South Carolina (Spartanburg County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 7, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
55 names on the Wall carry the date March 7, 1968; six of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 188 of its members that month.
He died in Gia Dinh Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 43E, Line 46
- CHARLES WAYNE JONESPrivate First Class · March 7, 1968
- ARNOLD DAVID KIRKCorporal · March 7, 1968
- GEORGE MAGEE LAMBERTON IIPrivate First Class · March 7, 1968
- THEODORE THOMAS LEOPrivate First Class · March 7, 1968
Same unit, same day
- STEPHEN FLOYD BOOTHSpecialist Four · Panel 43E, Line 41
- DAN SELLMAN HICKSSpecialist Four · Panel 43E, Line 44
- CHARLES WAYNE JONESPrivate First Class · Panel 43E, Line 46
- JOSEPH JAMES MELNYK JRPrivate First Class · Panel 43E, Line 47
- CHARLES HOWARD RAMPLEYSpecialist Four · Panel 43E, Line 47
- LOWELL TODD PETERSONPrivate First Class · Panel 43E, Line 49
From Spartanburg
- THOMAS RICE JRSpecialist Four · December 28, 1965
- DONALD THOMAS MITCHELLSpecialist Four · January 25, 1966
- CHARLES BENJAMIN NORRISSergeant · April 21, 1966
- FRED HAROLD STILLPrivate First Class · August 2, 1966
- JAMES WESLEY CANTRELLSpecialist Four · November 15, 1966
- JERRY DEAN WORTHYSpecialist Four · February 1, 1967
- LEYBURN W BROCKWELL JRLieutenant Colonel · May 1, 1967
- JAMES EDWIN WOODLance Corporal · June 2, 1967
- JIMMIE LEWISPrivate First Class · July 2, 1967
- GAREY LEE HENSLEYSpecialist Four · September 15, 1967
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.