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LLOYD EARLE GREENE JR
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
May 27, 1948 – September 19, 1968
Service recordLloyd Earle Greene JR, of Fairmont, West Virginia, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on September 19, 1968, in Darlac Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 43W, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43W · Line 36
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- May 27, 1948
- Home of record
- Fairmont, West Virginia (Marion County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 19, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Darlac
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
58 names on the Wall carry the date September 19, 1968; four of them were lost in Darlac Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 35 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 43W, Line 36
- ROBERT ARTHUR GREGORYSergeant First Class · September 19, 1968
- MICHAEL KEITH HAMNERSergeant · September 19, 1968
- BENJAMIN C HARTMAN JRMajor · September 19, 1968
- JAMES DALE RINEHARTLance Corporal · September 19, 1968
Same unit, same day
- BENJAMIN C HARTMAN JRMajor · Panel 43W, Line 36
From Fairmont
- EUGENE C SUMMERSSpecialist Four · January 25, 1966
- PHILIP VILONE JRPrivate First Class · June 16, 1966
- DANIEL WAYNE STUTLERPrivate First Class · July 4, 1966
- DAVID NORMAN WOLFECorporal · January 23, 1967
- WILLIAM BERNARD CRONINLieutenant Colonel · April 27, 1967
- RICHARD WAYNE GRIFFITHSergeant · July 2, 1967
- GARY HOWARD GRUBBSpecialist Four · January 15, 1968
- JACK EUGENE GORBEYStaff Sergeant · March 8, 1968
- BARRY MICHAEL PATTONLance Corporal · April 2, 1968
- CHARLES LEONARD YATESPrivate First Class · April 2, 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.