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MARTIN STEVE GRUBER JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 13, 1949 – August 8, 1968
Service recordMartin Steve Gruber JR, of Mason, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 8, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 49W, Line 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 49W · Line 30
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- February 13, 1949
- Home of record
- Mason, Ohio (Warren County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 8, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date August 8, 1968; two of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 62 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 49W, Line 30
- GRADY HERSHALL HARRISSergeant · August 8, 1968
- HERBERT E ILGENFRITZ JRPrivate First Class · August 8, 1968
- WILLIAM SAMUEL IRBYSergeant · August 8, 1968
- PHILLIPS H IZARD JRCaptain · August 8, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GRADY HERSHALL HARRISSergeant · Panel 49W, Line 30
- WILLIAM CLEMENS WIESKUSStaff Sergeant · Panel 49W, Line 35
From Mason
- TEDDY EUGENE MIDDLETONCorporal · July 15, 1969
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.