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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Melvin Louis Green.

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MELVIN LOUIS GREEN

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

October 8, 1947 – April 25, 1967

Service record

Melvin Louis Green, of Washington, District of Columbia, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 25, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 85 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 18E · Line 85

Position of Panel 18E 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Field Radio Operator (2531)
Born
October 8, 1947
Home of record
Washington, District of Columbia (District Of Columbia County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 25, 1967
Age
19
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

32 names on the Wall carry the date April 25, 1967; 13 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 18E, Line 85

From Washington

All 242 names from Washington →

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.