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Marines use an M48 tank as cover in the street fighting in Huế, 4 February 1968.
Marines use an M48 tank as cover in the street fighting in Huế, 4 February 1968. Photo: SSgt Jack L. Harlan, USMC, CC BY 2.0. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Miloslav Jose Martinovsky.

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MILOSLAV JOSE MARTINOVSKY

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

October 27, 1932 – January 30, 1968

Service record

Miloslav Jose Martinovsky served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 30, 1968, in Phu Yen Province, South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 76 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 35E · Line 76

Position of Panel 35E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Staff Sergeant (SSG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Heavy Anti-Armor Weapons Infantryman (11H)
Unit (as recorded)
173 AIRBORNE BDE
Born
October 27, 1932

Casualty

Date of death
January 30, 1968
Age
35
Province
Phu Yen
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

99 names on the Wall carry the date January 30, 1968; 23 of them were lost in Phu Yen Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 34 of its members that month.

He died in Phu Yen Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.

Also on Panel 35E, Line 76

Same unit, same day

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.