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STANLEY WAYNE MARTENS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 13, 1948 – July 4, 1969
Service recordStanley Wayne Martens, of Concordia, Missouri, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 4, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 61 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21W · Line 61
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Basic (13A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- November 13, 1948
- Home of record
- Concordia, Missouri (Lafayette County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 4, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date July 4, 1969; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 21W, Line 61
- EPHRIAM RUTLEDGE LILES IIWarrant Officer 1 · July 4, 1969
- FLOYD JOSEPH MATTHEWSSeaman · July 4, 1969
- JOSEPH JOHN MEYER JRPrivate First Class · July 4, 1969
- TIMOTHY SHAWN MICHAELWarrant Officer 1 · July 4, 1969
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS WILLENE JOHNSONPrivate First Class · Panel 21W, Line 60
From Concordia
- WILLIAM DOYLE KINDLESergeant · December 29, 1968
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.