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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Arthur Willie Greene.

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ARTHUR WILLIE GREENE

Private · U.S. Marine Corps

June 29, 1942 – January 20, 1967

Service record

Arthur Willie Greene, of Ft Pierce, Florida, served as a Private in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 20, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 56 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 14E · Line 56

Position of Panel 14E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Marine Corps
Rank
Private (PVT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
June 29, 1942
Home of record
Ft Pierce, Florida (St Lucie County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 20, 1967
Age
24
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

28 names on the Wall carry the date January 20, 1967; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 14E, Line 56

From Ft Pierce

All 19 names from Ft Pierce →

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.