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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 Robert E Scharon III.

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ROBERT E SCHARON III

Corporal · U.S. Army

April 12, 1947 – November 9, 1967

Service record

Robert E Scharon III, of Baltimore, Maryland, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on November 9, 1967, in Darlac Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 61 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 29E · Line 61

Position of Panel 29E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Tactical Wire Operations Specialist (36K)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
April 12, 1947
Home of record
Baltimore, Maryland (Baltimore (City) County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 9, 1967
Age
20
Province
Darlac
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

46 names on the Wall carry the date November 9, 1967; he was the only one lost in Darlac Province that day. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 142 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 29E, Line 61

Same unit, same day

From Baltimore

All 419 names from Baltimore →

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.