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Last Name	Martin
First Name	Quentin
Middle Name	Charles
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Place of Birth	Ripley, ME
Date of Birth	1926-09-09
Place of Death	Portland, OR
Date of Death	1945-06-22
Publication	The Eastern Gazette 7-19-1945, p.1
Obituary	MILITARY RITES FOR QUENTIN C. MARTIN S 2/c Funeral services for Quentin Martin, S 2/c, were held from the home of his father, Stanley S. Martin, lower Main street, Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the Rev. Gordon C. Reardon of the First Universalist church officiating. Members of the American Legion and V. F. W. attended the services and at the grave at Mt. Pleasant cemetery three volleys were fired by a firing squad composed of Dexter service men. Taps, with echo, were also sounded. There were many beautiful floral tributes. The bearers were Earl Richards, S 1/c, Vincent Daigle, ART 3/c, William Lamson, WT 1/c, Joseph Volpe, F 1/c, Laurice Weeks, USMS, and Gerald Fanjoy, USMS. Stores, shops and offices in the business section were closed for one hour during the funeral services, as the usual mark of respect for servicemen. Among those out of town in attendance at the funeral services were his mother, Mrs. Anna Martin, Brunswick; an aunt, Mrs. Gladys McCormick of Lynn, Mass.; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Jones, Brunswick; Mrs. Stella Peavey, Victor Paine, Brewer; Ai Libby, Orono; Mrs. Maude French, Garland; Mr. and Mrs. Winfield Frost, Corinna; Dana Lancaster Y 1/c and 'Felix Tomas MS, Chicago; Joseph Volpe F 2/c, Brooklyn, N. Y.; William Lamson WT 1/c, Salisbury, Conn., Frederick V. Slater, Winsted, Conn. Seaman Martin was instantly killed in Portland, Oregon, on June 22, when struck by a fast train, while he was on leave from his ship, the U. S. S. Pennsylvania, in drydock in California. The body arrived in Dexter Monday accompanied from Oregon by Joseph Volpe, F 1/c, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and from Chicago by Dana Lancaster and Felix Tomas, naval students. Quentin Martin was born in Ripley September 9, 1926, the son of Stanley S. and Anna Ramsdell Martin. He attended the Dexter and Bangor schools and before entering the service was employed in Brunswick. He enlisted in the U. S. Navy in January, 1944, and received his boot training at Sampson, N. Y., leaving immediately for the Pacific, where he was assigned to duty on the Pennsylvania, known as the "Shootin'est" ship in the war. At the time of his death, Martin was entitled to wear the American theater ribbon, the Asiatic-Pacific ribbon with silver star, denoting five major battles, and the Philippine ribbon with two bronze stars for participation in the Leyte and Luzon invasions. In April he enjoyed a furlough at home. After Martin's assignment to the ship, the Pennsylvania shuttled back and forth from Saipan to Guam on the mission in the Marianas invasion. In one stretch her guns pounded the enemy for 16 days. Her officers believe that on D-Day at Guam, last July 20, she fired more major-caliber shells in one day than any other ship in the war. The Pennsylvania was the only battleship to fire on both Peleliu and Angaur in the Palaus attack last September. She was the first battleship to steam into Leyte Gulf in the Philippines. In 37 days of the Leyte campaign the Pennsylvania's gunners downed a heavy toll of Japanese planes. On the morning of last January 1, the Pennsylvania was the first to fire on the Lingayen Gulf coast in the Luzon invasion. Surviving relatives include his mother, Mrs. Anna Martin of Brunswick; his father, Stanley S. Martin of Dexter; a half sister, Frances Martin and a grandmother, Mrs. Frankie Martin of Dexter; also several aunts, an uncle and cousins. Note: photo accompanied article