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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Charles Dee Green.

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CHARLES DEE GREEN

Private First Class · U.S. Army

February 28, 1943 – June 11, 1969

Service record

Charles Dee Green, of Richland, Washington, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 11, 1969, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 22W · Line 20

Position of Panel 22W 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. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
196 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
February 28, 1943
Home of record
Richland, Washington (Benton County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 11, 1969
Age
26
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

64 names on the Wall carry the date June 11, 1969; 15 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 45 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 22W, Line 20

Same unit, same day

From Richland

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.