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LARRY MARTIN
Sergeant · U.S. Army
December 6, 1947 – November 11, 1967
Service recordLarry Martin, of Chicago, Illinois, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 11, 1967, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 74 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29E · Line 74
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- December 6, 1947
- Home of record
- Chicago, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 11, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date November 11, 1967; 35 of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 212 of its members that month.
He died in Kon Tum Province while the Battle of Đắk Tô was under way. Around Đắk Tô in the Central Highlands (3–23 November 1967), the 4th Infantry Division and the 173rd Airborne Brigade fought North Vietnamese regiments for the hills along the border, ending with the assault on Hill 875 on Thanksgiving Day. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 29E, Line 74
- GLENN DIRK KERNSPrivate First Class · November 11, 1967
- EDWIN J MARTINEZ-MERCADOPrivate First Class · November 11, 1967
- WELDON JOHN MILESPrivate First Class · November 11, 1967
- WILLIAM GUY MUIRPrivate First Class · November 11, 1967
Same unit, same day
- GEORGE BRUCE GUNNPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 72
- GLENN DIRK KERNSPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 74
- EDWIN J MARTINEZ-MERCADOPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 74
- CHARLES FRANKLIN RILEYPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 75
- GARY FRANCIS SHAWPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 76
- ROBERT MILTON STATON JRSpecialist Four · Panel 29E, Line 76
- JOHN STEINER STUCKEY JRPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 77
From Chicago
- MELVIN LESTER WATERSPrivate · February 10, 1965
- WILLIAM RALPH FUHRMANPetty Officer Third Class · April 23, 1965
- RAYMOND LEON HORNCorporal · May 1, 1965
- ARTHUR C JEPSON JRCaptain · May 16, 1965
- DONALD CLAY DEDMONStaff Sergeant · June 10, 1965
- ROGER PELIKANLance Corporal · July 17, 1965
- HARRY COHENTechnical Sergeant · July 19, 1969
- CURTIS LOCKHARTPrivate First Class · July 30, 1965
- EDWARD KOPECPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- JAMES LEO WHITELance Corporal · August 19, 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.