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MARTIN DOUGLAS KLANN
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
September 3, 1945 – January 10, 1968
Service recordMartin Douglas Klann, of New Philadelphia, Ohio, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on January 10, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34E · Line 21
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 240 AVN CO 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- September 3, 1945
- Home of record
- New Philadelphia, Ohio (Tuscarawas County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 10, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
70 names on the Wall carry the date January 10, 1968; 12 of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “240 AVN CO 1 AVN BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34E, Line 21
- NORRIS FELTON JOHNSONSergeant · January 10, 1968
- ARTHUR JORDANPrivate First Class · January 10, 1968
- JERRY WAYNE KIZZIAHSpecialist Four · January 10, 1968
- ROBERT RUSSELL LEWISFirst Lieutenant · January 10, 1968
From New Philadelphia
- THOMAS ALAN JOHNSONPrivate First Class · May 8, 1967
- ARTHUR TIMOTHY FRILEYCorporal · February 16, 1968
- TOM MICHAEL THOMASCorporal · August 28, 1968
- THOMAS MICHAEL STRUCHENSpecialist Four · March 23, 1969
- JOHN CLARK HUNTERFirst Lieutenant · February 20, 1971
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.