PFC CLAUD DEWEY GREENE JR
187TH AIRBORNE REGIMENTAL COMBAT TEAM
I CO 3 BN
REGIMENTAL COMBAT TEAM
ARMY
HOSTILE, DIED (KIA)
REMAINS NOT RECOVERED
DATE OF LOSS: OCTOBER 21, 1950
SERVICE NUMBER: RA14292908
BORN: AUGUST 2, 1926
HOME OR PLACE OF ENLISTMENT
MOULTON, ALABAMA
LAWRENCE COUNTY
LOCATION OR BATTLE ZONE: AIR DROP SUNCHON - SUKCHON
TOWN OR AREA: OPA-RI
Comments: Private First Class Greene was a member of Company I, 3rd Battalion, 187th Airborne Infantry Regimental Combat Team. He was Killed in Action while fighting the enemy in North Korea on October 21, 1950. His remains were not recovered.
Private First Class Greene was awarded the Purple Heart, the Combat Infantryman Badge, the Korean Service Medal, the United Nations Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Korean Presidential Unit Citation and the Republic of Korea War Service Medal.
His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing, Court 6, at the Honolulu Memorial.
Claude Dewey Greene
His name is also inscribed on the National Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Claude Dewey Greene
KOREAN WAR PROJECT KEY NO: 11368
Finding The Families: A Family DNA Sample has been obtained.
187TH AIRBORNE REGIMENTAL COMBAT TEAM
I CO 3 BN
REGIMENTAL COMBAT TEAM
ARMY
HOSTILE, DIED (KIA)
REMAINS NOT RECOVERED
DATE OF LOSS: OCTOBER 21, 1950
SERVICE NUMBER: RA14292908
BORN: AUGUST 2, 1926
HOME OR PLACE OF ENLISTMENT
MOULTON, ALABAMA
LAWRENCE COUNTY
LOCATION OR BATTLE ZONE: AIR DROP SUNCHON - SUKCHON
TOWN OR AREA: OPA-RI
Comments: Private First Class Greene was a member of Company I, 3rd Battalion, 187th Airborne Infantry Regimental Combat Team. He was Killed in Action while fighting the enemy in North Korea on October 21, 1950. His remains were not recovered.
Private First Class Greene was awarded the Purple Heart, the Combat Infantryman Badge, the Korean Service Medal, the United Nations Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Korean Presidential Unit Citation and the Republic of Korea War Service Medal.
His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing, Court 6, at the Honolulu Memorial.
Claude Dewey Greene
His name is also inscribed on the National Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Claude Dewey Greene
KOREAN WAR PROJECT KEY NO: 11368
Finding The Families: A Family DNA Sample has been obtained.
PFC CLAUD DEWEY GREENE JR
187TH AIRBORNE REGIMENTAL COMBAT TEAM
I CO 3 BN
REGIMENTAL COMBAT TEAM
ARMY
HOSTILE, DIED (KIA)
REMAINS NOT RECOVERED
DATE OF LOSS: OCTOBER 21, 1950
SERVICE NUMBER: RA14292908
BORN: AUGUST 2, 1926
HOME OR PLACE OF ENLISTMENT
MOULTON, ALABAMA
LAWRENCE COUNTY
LOCATION OR BATTLE ZONE: AIR DROP SUNCHON - SUKCHON
TOWN OR AREA: OPA-RI
Comments: Private First Class Greene was a member of Company I, 3rd Battalion, 187th Airborne Infantry Regimental Combat Team. He was Killed in Action while fighting the enemy in North Korea on October 21, 1950. His remains were not recovered.
Private First Class Greene was awarded the Purple Heart, the Combat Infantryman Badge, the Korean Service Medal, the United Nations Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Korean Presidential Unit Citation and the Republic of Korea War Service Medal.
His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing, Court 6, at the Honolulu Memorial.
Claude Dewey Greene
His name is also inscribed on the National Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Claude Dewey Greene
KOREAN WAR PROJECT KEY NO: 11368
Finding The Families: A Family DNA Sample has been obtained.
187TH AIRBORNE REGIMENTAL COMBAT TEAM
I CO 3 BN
REGIMENTAL COMBAT TEAM
ARMY
HOSTILE, DIED (KIA)
REMAINS NOT RECOVERED
DATE OF LOSS: OCTOBER 21, 1950
SERVICE NUMBER: RA14292908
BORN: AUGUST 2, 1926
HOME OR PLACE OF ENLISTMENT
MOULTON, ALABAMA
LAWRENCE COUNTY
LOCATION OR BATTLE ZONE: AIR DROP SUNCHON - SUKCHON
TOWN OR AREA: OPA-RI
Comments: Private First Class Greene was a member of Company I, 3rd Battalion, 187th Airborne Infantry Regimental Combat Team. He was Killed in Action while fighting the enemy in North Korea on October 21, 1950. His remains were not recovered.
Private First Class Greene was awarded the Purple Heart, the Combat Infantryman Badge, the Korean Service Medal, the United Nations Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Korean Presidential Unit Citation and the Republic of Korea War Service Medal.
His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing, Court 6, at the Honolulu Memorial.
Claude Dewey Greene
His name is also inscribed on the National Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Claude Dewey Greene
KOREAN WAR PROJECT KEY NO: 11368
Finding The Families: A Family DNA Sample has been obtained.
Gravesite Details
Son of Claude Dewey Greene, Sr. (1898 - 1966) & Lillie B. (Watkins) Greene (1897 - 1969).
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