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RALPH LAVERNE GREEN
Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy
January 17, 1935 – September 18, 1968
Service recordRalph Laverne Green, of Coldwater, Michigan, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on September 18, 1968, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 43W, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43W · Line 28
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer First Class (PO1)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Signalman (SM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- January 17, 1935
- Home of record
- Coldwater, Michigan (Branch County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 18, 1968
- Age
- 33
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date September 18, 1968; three of them were lost in Kien Hoa Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 43W, Line 28
- ROBERT EDWARD GRAYPrivate First Class · September 18, 1968
- WAYNE ALLEN HAYSLance Corporal · September 18, 1968
- ROBERT LAWRENCE JANOWITZFirst Lieutenant · September 18, 1968
- AARON GILBERT JOHNSONPrivate First Class · September 18, 1968
From Coldwater
- EUGENE WILLIAM CASWELLWarrant Officer 1 · May 27, 1966
- AUGUST HAROLD MONHOFCorporal · December 5, 1967
- CHRISTOPHER EDWIN LYONSpecialist Four · February 5, 1968
- REX FRANKLIN NELSON JRStaff Sergeant · May 10, 1969
- HAROLD FREDRICK HAWKINSCorporal · June 18, 1969
- GENE BERTAN NICKERSONLieutenant (junior grade) · February 26, 1970
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.