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EDWARD EUGENE GREENE
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
September 29, 1944 – January 2, 1967
Service recordEdward Eugene Greene, of Lenoir, North Carolina, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 2, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 109 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 13E · Line 109
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- September 29, 1944
- Home of record
- Lenoir, North Carolina (Caldwell County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 2, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date January 2, 1967; four of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 69 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 13E, Line 109
- FRED D HARTPrivate First Class · January 2, 1967
- JOE HERNANDEZ JRPrivate First Class · January 2, 1967
- JOE D JOHNSON JRPrivate First Class · January 2, 1967
- ELMER L JUCKETT IIIPrivate First Class · January 2, 1967
Same unit, same day
- GARLAND G FUGATESpecialist Four · Panel 13E, Line 108
- ELMER FRANK SPINAPrivate First Class · Panel 13E, Line 111
From Lenoir
- CANEY GREENSpecialist Four · August 15, 1966
- WALTER J SPAINHOUR JRFirst Lieutenant · September 15, 1966
- MICHAEL H PENNELLPrivate First Class · November 21, 1966
- JOHN EDWARD FERGUSONPrivate First Class · June 8, 1967
- GENE CALVIN REIDSpecialist Four · February 28, 1968
- THEODORE R CONLEY JRLance Corporal · November 29, 1968
- RICHARD COLON WATSONPrivate First Class · August 2, 1969
- GEORGE FRANKLIN MCGEECorporal · September 11, 1969
- JAMES RICHARD BOWERS JRSergeant · March 7, 1970
- WILLIAM EUGENE AUSTINSergeant · July 31, 1970
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.