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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Joseph Greene.

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JOSEPH GREENE

Sergeant · U.S. Army

July 31, 1948 – May 9, 1968

Service record

Joseph Greene, of New York, New York, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 9, 1968, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 57E, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 57E · Line 22

Position of Panel 57E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
July 31, 1948
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 9, 1968
Age
19
Province
Binh Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

127 names on the Wall carry the date May 9, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Binh Long Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 236 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 57E, Line 22

Same unit, same day

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.