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ROBERT CHARLES SCHELL JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 28, 1946 – August 24, 1969
Service recordRobert Charles Schell JR, of Horseheads, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 24, 1969, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 19W, Line 109 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19W · Line 109
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- September 28, 1946
- Home of record
- Horseheads, New York (Chemung County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 24, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Phuoc Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date August 24, 1969; he was the only one lost in Phuoc Long Province that day. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 19W, Line 109
- BOBBY LEE ROBERTSPrivate First Class · August 24, 1969
- JOSE F ROSADO-BORGESPrivate First Class · August 24, 1969
- CHARLES HAROLD SCHAEFERFirst Lieutenant · August 24, 1969
- LARRY SHEASpecialist Five · August 24, 1969
From Horseheads
- WALTER EARL VONDERCHEKSpecialist Four · February 20, 1968
- TERRY WARD MOTTPrivate First Class · April 20, 1968
- JACK MERRIEL STRONGCorporal · July 29, 1968
- STEPHEN LEO YONTZSergeant · May 12, 1970
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.