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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Terry Willard Greene.

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TERRY WILLARD GREENE

Private First Class · U.S. Army

November 29, 1949 – April 15, 1971

Service record

Terry Willard Greene, of Nashville, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 15, 1971, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 126 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 4W · Line 126

Position of Panel 4W 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
November 29, 1949
Home of record
Nashville, North Carolina (Nash County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 15, 1971
Age
21
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

15 names on the Wall carry the date April 15, 1971; 12 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1971, 292 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 57 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 4W, Line 126

Same unit, same day

From Nashville

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.