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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 Jimmie Wayne Green.

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JIMMIE WAYNE GREEN

Sergeant · U.S. Army

December 30, 1944 – October 13, 1967

Service record

Jimmie Wayne Green, of Avon Park, Florida, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on October 13, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 100 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 27E · Line 100

Position of Panel 27E 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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Aircraft Powerplant Repairer (68B)
Unit (as recorded)
188 AVN CO 1 AVN BDE
Born
December 30, 1944
Home of record
Avon Park, Florida (Highlands County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 13, 1967
Age
22
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

33 names on the Wall carry the date October 13, 1967; 13 of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 27E, Line 100

From Avon Park

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.