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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Martin James Coronis.

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MARTIN JAMES CORONIS

Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army

December 6, 1942 – July 11, 1967

Service record

Martin James Coronis, of Nashua, New Hampshire, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on July 11, 1967, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 50 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 23E · Line 50

Position of Panel 23E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Helicopter Pilot, Utility And Light Cargo Single Rotor (062B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
December 6, 1942
Home of record
Nashua, New Hampshire (Hillsborough County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 11, 1967
Age
24
Province
Kontum
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

36 names on the Wall carry the date July 11, 1967; two of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 39 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 23E, Line 50

Same unit, same day

From Nashua

All 18 names from Nashua →

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.