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EDWARD LEONARD GREENE
Sergeant · U.S. Army
October 28, 1938 – November 20, 1967
Service recordEdward Leonard Greene, of Marysville, California, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 20, 1967, in Vinh Binh Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 42 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30E · Line 42
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- October 28, 1938
- Home of record
- Marysville, California (Yuba County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 20, 1967
- Age
- 29
- Province
- Vinh Binh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
79 names on the Wall carry the date November 20, 1967; he was the only one lost in Vinh Binh Province that day. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 30E, Line 42
- CHARLES RICHARD CREWSPrivate First Class · November 20, 1967
- JUAN MANUEL GARCIAPrivate First Class · November 20, 1967
- MICHAEL JAY GLADDENSpecialist Four · November 20, 1967
- HERBERT HOOVER GRAYPrivate First Class · November 20, 1967
From Marysville
- DAVID EUGENE NANCEPrivate First Class · July 11, 1966
- MICHAEL MILLNERSergeant First Class · November 29, 1967
- RENNY DEAN SCHOELPrivate First Class · December 26, 1967
- DAVID JOSEPH BOLTONSecond Lieutenant · June 16, 1968
- STEVEN OWEN SCHNELLERPrivate First Class · October 7, 1968
- MARIO MONTES LAGUNASpecialist Four · January 26, 1969
- THOMAS WAYNE CUMMINSSpecialist Four · May 12, 1969
- JOHN THOMAS BAKERCorporal · October 13, 1969
- GRIFFITH ALFRED JONESSergeant Major · May 12, 1970
- MICHAEL STEPHEN VRABLICKFirst Lieutenant · October 1, 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.