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UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967.
UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967. Photo: PFC Franklin G. Nickerson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jerry L Green.

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JERRY L GREEN

Chief Warrant Officer 2 · U.S. Army

September 29, 1938 – March 12, 1968

Service record

Jerry L Green, of Tucson, Arizona, served as a Chief Warrant Officer 2 in the U.S. Army. He died on March 12, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 44E · Line 26

Position of Panel 44E 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
Chief Warrant Officer 2 (CW2)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Helicopter Pilot, Utility And Light Cargo Single Rotor (062B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 AVN BDE
Born
September 29, 1938
Home of record
Tucson, Arizona (Pima County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 12, 1968
Age
29
Province
Bien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

43 names on the Wall carry the date March 12, 1968; three of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 29 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 44E, Line 26

From Tucson

All 107 names from Tucson →

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.