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AUTRY GREEN
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
April 3, 1939 – December 6, 1966
Service recordAutry Green, of Corsicana, Texas, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 6, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 13E · Line 16
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- April 3, 1939
- Home of record
- Corsicana, Texas (Navarro County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 6, 1966
- Age
- 27
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
12 names on the Wall carry the date December 6, 1966. In December 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 13E, Line 16
- THEODORE R MCELROY JRPrivate First Class · December 6, 1966
- SANFORD LEWIS NELSONPrivate First Class · December 6, 1966
- LAWRENCE EDWARD PAYNEMaster Sergeant · December 6, 1966
- JAMES ELSWORTH PITTSSecond Lieutenant · December 6, 1966
From Corsicana
- DONALD LOYE RICHARDSONCorporal · August 11, 1966
- RONALD LYNN MARTINWarrant Officer 1 · January 1, 1968
- JOSEPH EWING SMITHSergeant · September 5, 1968
- RONALD MICHAEL BLUEStaff Sergeant · May 24, 1970
- SAMUEL WAYMON MCDANIEL IISpecialist Five · July 8, 1971
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.