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LONNIE GENE MARTIN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 10, 1947 – November 30, 1968
Service recordLonnie Gene Martin, of Tomball, Texas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 30, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 13
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- November 10, 1947
- Home of record
- Tomball, Texas (Harris County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 30, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date November 30, 1968; he was the only one lost in Bien Hoa Province that day. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 76 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 13
- GARY RUSSELL LABOHNSergeant First Class · September 23, 1968
- MICHAEL HAMMOND MEINSergeant First Class · October 9, 1968
- DONALD CHESTER LEPAKSergeant · November 30, 1968
- BRUCE JUN MORIPrivate First Class · November 30, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT LYNN FOX JRPrivate First Class · Panel 37W, Line 10
- JAMES KENNEDYPrivate First Class · Panel 37W, Line 12
From Tomball
- HERBERT RAY CURTISSpecialist Four · November 21, 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.