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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Martin Stephen Doherty.

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MARTIN STEPHEN DOHERTY

Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy

April 8, 1949 – December 4, 1969

Service record

Martin Stephen Doherty, of New York, New York, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on December 4, 1969, in An Xugen Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 15W · Line 23

Position of Panel 15W 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. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Radarman (RD)
Unit (as recorded)
USNAVFORV
Born
April 8, 1949
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 4, 1969
Age
20
Province
An Xugen
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

12 names on the Wall carry the date December 4, 1969; two of them were lost in An Xugen Province. In December 1969, 509 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 15W, Line 23

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.