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A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967.
A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, DASPO, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Arthur Haywood Green.

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ARTHUR HAYWOOD GREEN

Captain · U.S. Army

March 5, 1938 – August 3, 1967

Service record

Arthur Haywood Green served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on August 3, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 24E, Line 72 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 24E · Line 72

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Captain (CPT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Unit (as recorded)
SPECIAL FORCES
Born
March 5, 1938

Casualty

Date of death
August 3, 1967
Age
29
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

27 names on the Wall carry the date August 3, 1967. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 24E, Line 72

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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.