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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Martin Lee Freeman.

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MARTIN LEE FREEMAN

Private First Class · U.S. Army

February 19, 1946 – March 3, 1967

Service record

Martin Lee Freeman, of Bangor, Maine, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 3, 1967, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 16E · Line 10

Position of Panel 16E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Armor Crewman (11E)
Unit (as recorded)
199 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
February 19, 1946
Home of record
Bangor, Maine (Penobscot County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 3, 1967
Age
21
Province
Long An
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

46 names on the Wall carry the date March 3, 1967; five of them were lost in Long An Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 27 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 16E, Line 10

Same unit, same day

From Bangor

All 14 names from Bangor →

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.