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LOREN DAUNE MARTINSEN
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
December 10, 1949 – November 27, 1968
Service recordLoren Daune Martinsen, of Red Bluff, California, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on November 27, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 38W, Line 76 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38W · Line 76
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- December 10, 1949
- Home of record
- Red Bluff, California (Tehama County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 27, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
61 names on the Wall carry the date November 27, 1968; six of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 40 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 38W, Line 76
- MALCOLM EUGENE LOMAXPrivate · November 27, 1968
- VINCENT LEO MAGERSpecialist Four · November 27, 1968
- MYRON WILLIAM MAGNONFirst Lieutenant · November 27, 1968
- JACKIE MONROE MEDLINCorporal · November 27, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ERNEST LEE BARBERSpecialist Four · Panel 38W, Line 70
- ROGER JAY BARTHOLOMEWLieutenant Colonel · Panel 38W, Line 70
- JOHN WILLIAM BRINKMEYERWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 38W, Line 71
- EDWARD BARRY VOGELColonel · Panel 38W, Line 80
- RANDALL WILLIAM WAGNERCorporal · Panel 38W, Line 80
From Red Bluff
- WENDELL OLIVER CHATFIELDPrivate First Class · June 8, 1966
- MICHAEL REX SMITHPrivate First Class · July 18, 1966
- GLEN DEAN BELNAPLieutenant Colonel · December 20, 1967
- GARY LYLE RICHARDSONCorporal · June 13, 1968
- DONALD LEORY DUNNSergeant · August 14, 1969
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.