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MARTIN G SAUBLE JR
Private · U.S. Army
December 6, 1947 – December 31, 1968
Service recordMartin G Sauble JR, of Manheim, Pennsylvania, served as a Private in the U.S. Army. He died on December 31, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 35W, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35W · Line 13
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private (PVT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 82 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- December 6, 1947
- Home of record
- Manheim, Pennsylvania (Lancaster County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 31, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date December 31, 1968; he was the only one lost in Hua Nghia Province that day. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 82nd Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 35W, Line 13
- JON O NACYPrivate First Class · December 30, 1968
- JAMES JAY BRITTCorporal · December 31, 1968
- JOHNNIE DAVID KNIGHTSpecialist Four · December 31, 1968
- BYRON LEE NOTT JRSecond Lieutenant · December 31, 1968
- HARLAN SECRESSSergeant · December 31, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ERNEST EDWARD GARRAHANSergeant · Panel 35W, Line 12
From Manheim
- JAY Q BUCKWALTER IIIPrivate First Class · June 2, 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.