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JIMMIE RAY GREEN
Corporal · U.S. Army
June 13, 1948 – November 27, 1968
Service recordJimmie Ray Green, of Keota, Oklahoma, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on November 27, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 38W, Line 74 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38W · Line 74
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- June 13, 1948
- Home of record
- Keota, Oklahoma (Haskell County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 27, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
61 names on the Wall carry the date November 27, 1968; two of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 38W, Line 74
- WILLIAM GIBBS JRPrivate First Class · November 27, 1968
- WILSON FITZGERALD HALLEYFirst Lieutenant · November 27, 1968
- RICHARD LEE HAMMETTPrivate First Class · November 27, 1968
- BILLY CHARLES HUNTERSpecialist Four · November 27, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DANIEL PORRAS FLORESCorporal · Panel 38W, Line 73
From Keota
- AUSTIN DALE GIBSONSpecialist Four · July 20, 1968
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.