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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 Mosher Hunt.

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MARTIN MOSHER HUNT

Private First Class · U.S. Army

September 29, 1946 – July 29, 1967

Service record

Martin Mosher Hunt, of Menlo Park, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 29, 1967, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 24E, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 24E · Line 28

Position of Panel 24E 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
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
September 29, 1946
Home of record
Menlo Park, California (San Mateo County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 29, 1967
Age
20
Province
Dinh Tuong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

184 names on the Wall carry the date July 29, 1967; seven of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 46 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 24E, Line 28

Same unit, same day

From Menlo Park

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.