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MELVIN GREEN
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
May 12, 1940 – August 12, 1969
Service recordMelvin Green, of Cleveland, Texas, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on August 12, 1969, in Phu Yen Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 19W, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19W · Line 14
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- General Vehicle Repairman (63C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- May 12, 1940
- Home of record
- Cleveland, Texas (Liberty County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 12, 1969
- Age
- 29
- Province
- Phu Yen
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
105 names on the Wall carry the date August 12, 1969; two of them were lost in Phu Yen Province. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 19W, Line 14
- LEO FRANK GREEN JRPrivate First Class · August 12, 1969
- MICHAEL JON GREGORIUSLance Corporal · August 12, 1969
- PHILLIP GUZMAN JRPrivate First Class · August 12, 1969
- DAVID OSCAR HAAKESergeant · August 12, 1969
Same unit, same day
- HENRY BRABOSpecialist Four · Panel 19W, Line 9
- RONALD GENE QUINNSpecialist Four · Panel 19W, Line 20
- JON TASCHPrivate First Class · Panel 19W, Line 26
- ADVERT WOODS JRSpecialist Four · Panel 19W, Line 27
From Cleveland
- ROBERT LYNN OLIVERCorporal · January 3, 1971
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.