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ROBERT FRANCIS SCHERDIN
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
February 14, 1947 – December 29, 1968
Service recordRobert Francis Scherdin, of Somerville, New Jersey, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He was lost on December 29, 1968, in Cambodia, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 35W, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35W · Line 6
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- February 14, 1947
- Home of record
- Somerville, New Jersey (Somerset County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- December 29, 1968
- Country
- Cambodia
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date December 29, 1968. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.
The record places this loss in Cambodia, outside South Vietnam.
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 35W, Line 6
- DAVID PAUL NASHPrivate First Class · December 29, 1968
- EUGENE LE ROY RATHMANNSecond Lieutenant · December 29, 1968
- RONALD EUGENE ROBERTSSpecialist Four · December 29, 1968
- MICHAEL CARR SPOTSWOODPrivate First Class · December 29, 1968
From Somerville
- RICHARD JOSEPH VALLONEPetty Officer Third Class · July 29, 1967
- CHARLES LOUIS MAGLIAROPrivate First Class · August 30, 1967
- DWIGHT FRANCIS RANDSergeant · January 4, 1968
- MYRON DIDURYKMajor · April 24, 1970
- THOMAS WILLIAM FRECHSpecialist Four · December 1, 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.