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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert Earl Green.

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ROBERT EARL GREEN

Corporal · U.S. Army

February 6, 1949 – May 12, 1970

Service record

Robert Earl Green, of Purvis, Mississippi, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on May 12, 1970, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 10W, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 10W · Line 24

Position of Panel 10W 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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
11 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
February 6, 1949
Home of record
Purvis, Mississippi (Lamar County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 12, 1970
Age
21
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

47 names on the Wall carry the date May 12, 1970; 11 of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 28 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 10W, Line 24

Same unit, same day

From Purvis

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.