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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Hubert William Martin.

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HUBERT WILLIAM MARTIN

Private First Class · U.S. Army

January 26, 1945 – August 21, 1968

Service record

Hubert William Martin, of Oakman, Alabama, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 21, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 47W, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 47W · Line 20

Position of Panel 47W 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
January 26, 1945
Home of record
Oakman, Alabama (Walker County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 21, 1968
Age
23
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

52 names on the Wall carry the date August 21, 1968; 24 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 134 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 47W, Line 20

Same unit, same day

From Oakman

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.