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JOHN MURRAY MARTIN
Lieutenant Colonel · U.S. Air Force
June 17, 1931 – November 20, 1967
Service recordJohn Murray Martin, of Glenshaw, Pennsylvania, served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air Force. He died on November 20, 1967, in North Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 45 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30E · Line 45
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
- Lieutenant Colonel (LTCOL)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Pilot (1115F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 480 TFS
- Born
- June 17, 1931
- Home of record
- Glenshaw, Pennsylvania (Allegheny County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 20, 1967
- Age
- 36
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
79 names on the Wall carry the date November 20, 1967. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 30E, Line 45
- WESTON JOSEPH LANGLEYSpecialist Four · November 20, 1967
- CARLOS JAMES LOZADAPrivate First Class · November 20, 1967
- ROGER DALE MABEPrivate First Class · November 20, 1967
- GEORGE MICHAEL MATTINGLYPrivate First Class · November 20, 1967
From Glenshaw
- MILTON SOLOMONPrivate · December 5, 1965
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.