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ROBERT DALE HERREID
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
June 13, 1946 – October 10, 1968
Service recordRobert Dale Herreid, of Aurora, Illinois, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He was lost on October 10, 1968, in Chau Doc Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 41W, Line 40 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41W · Line 40
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- June 13, 1946
- Home of record
- Aurora, Illinois (Kane County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- October 10, 1968
- Province
- Chau Doc
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date October 10, 1968; he was the only one lost in Chau Doc Province that day. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 9 of its members that month.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 41W, Line 40
- EUGENE ALLEN HANDRAHANSergeant First Class · October 10, 1968
- JONATHON JEFFREY HAWKINSPrivate First Class · October 10, 1968
- HENRY JAMESPrivate First Class · October 10, 1968
- VON MILES LIEBERNECHTCaptain · October 10, 1968
From Aurora
- CHARLES B JEFFRIES JRSpecialist Four · March 16, 1966
- JOHN PAUL CRANDALLSergeant · March 21, 1967
- RAMIRO CARDENASLance Corporal · February 27, 1968
- RICHARD LEE GARLICKPrivate First Class · March 1, 1968
- DENNIS ARRON TOADVINECorporal · March 11, 1968
- JAMES LEE LAKESergeant · May 12, 1968
- ALBERT EUGENE DAHLSpecialist Four · May 13, 1968
- GERALD JOHN LAFLEURSpecialist Four · July 15, 1968
- KARL RICHARD HARINGSergeant · September 24, 1968
- JAMES ALLAN ASCHERFirst Lieutenant · January 8, 1969
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.