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LINWOOD DWIGHT MARTIN
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
September 18, 1937 – March 22, 1968
Service recordLinwood Dwight Martin, of Bassett, Virginia, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 22, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 45E, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45E · Line 59
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
- Radio Operator (05B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- September 18, 1937
- Home of record
- Bassett, Virginia (Henry County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 22, 1968
- Age
- 30
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date March 22, 1968; he was the only one lost in Bình Định Province that day. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 16 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Định Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 45E, Line 59
- CARL LYONSPrivate · March 22, 1968
- THEODORE VALENTI MCINNISCorporal · March 22, 1968
- THOMAS J MURRAYSpecialist Four · March 22, 1968
- THOMAS JOHN PTAKSpecialist Four · March 22, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ESTEVAN TORRESMaster Sergeant · Panel 45E, Line 61
- JOHN CURTIS WELLSSpecialist Four · Panel 45E, Line 61
From Bassett
- FRANK JOSEPH BOWLESCorporal · July 9, 1967
- LONNIE ALLAN BROOKSSergeant · May 3, 1968
- SAMUEL HARRISON EASLEY IICorporal · May 28, 1968
- DAVID WAYNE WILSONPrivate First Class · May 17, 1969
- CALVIN WETZEL RAMSEYCorporal · August 8, 1970
- GORDON ELLIOTT STONEMajor · May 21, 1972
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.