According to his obituary, “Martin was an Army Air Corps veteran having served during World War II. As tail gunner on a B-17 Bomber, his plane was shot down over Germany. He was a POW in Stalag 17B in Austria for 21 months. He was awarded the European Theater Operations Medal with six bronze stars and discharged as a Technical Sergeant after three years of service.”
He retired as Chief of the Product Engineering Division of Rodman Laboratory at the Rock Island Arsenal in 1976.