VIETNAM - MARTINEZ, DONALD LYNWOOD

Martinez, Donald Lynwood

VIETNAM - MARTINEZ, DONALD LYNWOOD
MARTINEZ, DONALD LYNWOOD

Rank: Specialist 4

Unit: Headquarters & Headquarters Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment

MOS: 63C – General Vehicle Repairman

Awards: Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal

Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device

Enlisted by: Regular

Date of birth: 23-Jan-1943

Hometown: Tazewell, Virginia

Marital status: Married to Brigitte M. Martinez, one son

Campaign: Vietnam Conflict

Entered service: 27-Nov-1964

Start of tour: 20-Aug-1966

Incident date: 17-Apr-1967

Date of casualty: 17-Apr-1967

Age at death: 24

Cause of death: Hostile, died. Artillery/Mortar/Rocket. Artillery, rocket, or mortar.
Donald Lynwood Martinez was in a convoy when the convoy came under hostile mortar attack.

Four Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
PVT Albert Franklin Cleveland
SP4 Royd Steve Kerley Jr
SP4 Donald Lynwood Martinez
PFC William James McCue

Location of fatality: Long Khanh, South Vietnam

Place of interment: Maplewood Cemetery, Tazewell, Virginia, USA

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Vietnam Veterans Memorial panel and row: 18E 041 (view Vietnam Veterans Memorial link in a new window)