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SAMUEL CALVIN MARTIN
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
December 22, 1946 – May 17, 1968
Service recordSamuel Calvin Martin, of Greensburg, Kentucky, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on May 17, 1968, in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 62E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 62E · Line 8
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Signal Security Specialist (05G)
- Born
- December 22, 1946
- Home of record
- Greensburg, Kentucky (Green County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 17, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Phuoc Tuy
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
85 names on the Wall carry the date May 17, 1968; two of them were lost in Phuoc Tuy Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 62E, Line 8
- LOUIS ROBERT LORDISpecialist Four · May 17, 1968
- RONNIE DEAN LUMANSpecialist Four · May 17, 1968
- ROLAND TRENT MARSHALLPrivate First Class · May 17, 1968
- FRANKLIN H METZKERPrivate · May 17, 1968
From Greensburg
- ROBERT ALLEN COFFEYPrivate First Class · February 25, 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.