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UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967.
UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967. Photo: PFC Franklin G. Nickerson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Stanley Norris Green.

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STANLEY NORRIS GREEN

Sergeant · U.S. Army

May 9, 1947 – November 21, 1968

Service record

Stanley Norris Green, of Macon, Georgia, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 21, 1968, in Binh Thuan Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 38W, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 38W · Line 26

Position of Panel 38W 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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
Unit (as recorded)
1 AVN BDE
Born
May 9, 1947
Home of record
Macon, Georgia (Bibb County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 21, 1968
Age
21
Province
Binh Thuan
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

51 names on the Wall carry the date November 21, 1968; two of them were lost in Binh Thuan Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 33 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 38W, Line 26

Same unit, same day

From Macon

All 56 names from Macon →

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.