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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 Thomas Henry Green.

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THOMAS HENRY GREEN

Sergeant Major · U.S. Army

January 21, 1926 – July 9, 1969

Service record

Thomas Henry Green, of Columbus, Georgia, served as a Sergeant Major in the U.S. Army. He died on July 9, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 43. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 89 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21W · Line 89

Position of Panel 21W 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 Major (SGM)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Finance Senior Sergeant (73Z)
Unit (as recorded)
1 LOGISTIC CMD
Born
January 21, 1926
Home of record
Columbus, Georgia (Muscogee County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 9, 1969
Age
43
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

22 names on the Wall carry the date July 9, 1969; eight of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 21W, Line 89

From Columbus

All 117 names from Columbus →

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.