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Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970.
Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Lloyd Rolland Greene.

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LLOYD ROLLAND GREENE

Private · U.S. Army

March 19, 1949 – November 5, 1968

Service record

Lloyd Rolland Greene, of St Louis, Missouri, served as a Private in the U.S. Army. He died on November 5, 1968, in Phu Yen Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 39W · Line 21

Position of Panel 39W 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
Private (PVT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Tactical Wire Operations Specialist (36K)
Unit (as recorded)
173 AIRBORNE BDE
Born
March 19, 1949
Home of record
St Louis, Missouri (St Louis (City) County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 5, 1968
Age
19
Province
Phu Yen
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

25 names on the Wall carry the date November 5, 1968; five of them were lost in Phu Yen Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 39W, Line 21

Same unit, same day

From St Louis

All 296 names from St Louis →

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.