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LEROY CLAYTON MARTINSON
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
December 4, 1941 – December 8, 1968
Service recordLeroy Clayton Martinson, of Thief River Falls, Minnesota, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 8, 1968, in Vinh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 68 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 68
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 First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- December 4, 1941
- Home of record
- Thief River Falls, Minnesota (Pennington County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 8, 1968
- Age
- 27
- Province
- Vinh Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
59 names on the Wall carry the date December 8, 1968; he was the only one lost in Vinh Long Province that day. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 68
- FRANK FREDERICK MUSICKTechnical Sergeant · December 8, 1968
- STEPHEN EDWARD NEASPrivate First Class · December 8, 1968
- JERRY LYNN OWENSPrivate First Class · December 8, 1968
- ROBERT ALAN REXCaptain · December 8, 1968
From Thief River Falls
- LYNN GREGORY HIEBERTSergeant · May 24, 1968
- EDDIE LEE EVENSONSpecialist Four · March 23, 1969
- MYLES DALEN WESTMANCorporal · May 13, 1969
- NICHOLAS PIERRE LANNOYECorporal · October 10, 1969
- ROBERT JOHN SWEDENBURGSpecialist Four · December 9, 1969
- ROBERT DEAN BESCHSergeant · April 9, 1970
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.