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JOHN FRANCIS MARTIN
Lieutenant Colonel · U.S. Army
March 3, 1932 – January 31, 1968
Service recordJohn Francis Martin, of Watertown, New York, served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army. He died on January 31, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 36E, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36E · Line 24
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
- Lieutenant Colonel (LTC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Operations And Training Staff Officer (G3,a3,s3) (2162)
- Unit (as recorded)
- ENGINEERING CMD
- Born
- March 3, 1932
- Home of record
- Watertown, New York (Jefferson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 31, 1968
- Age
- 35
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
246 names on the Wall carry the date January 31, 1968; 28 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “ENGINEERING CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 36E, Line 24
- JOSEPH VIETO MARRONESpecialist Five · January 31, 1968
- JAMES CONRAD MARSHALLCorporal · January 31, 1968
- FRANCIS JOHN MAYER JRPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
- OWEN EDWARD MEBUSTSpecialist Four · January 31, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LARRY FRANKLIN NEWCOMBSpecialist Four · Panel 36E, Line 28
From Watertown
- JOSEF S HUWYLERWarrant Officer 1 · October 21, 1965
- SAMUEL HENRY GRAHAM IISergeant · April 27, 1966
- PETER WILLIAM BOORASPrivate First Class · August 22, 1966
- JOHN STEPHEN SAYERFirst Lieutenant · December 10, 1966
- WILLIAM JEFFREY MULDOVANLance Corporal · March 7, 1968
- JAMES HENRY JESSMANPrivate First Class · August 30, 1968
- GREGORY JAMES KELLOGGLance Corporal · September 2, 1968
- DAVID PAUL HALPINFireman · September 28, 1968
- DAVID WALTER WILSONSpecialist Four · October 5, 1968
- ROBERT HENRY SINCLAIR JRSergeant · December 31, 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.