Bucheit, Robert Clarence
Army Sergeant

Robert Clarence Bucheit from Ohio, Butler county.

Parents: Mary C. Bucheit

Service era: Korea

Date of death: Thursday, November 2, 1950
Death details: On August 8, 2006, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC, now DPAA) identified the remains of Sergeant First Class Robert Clarence Bucheit, missing from the Korean War. Sergeant First Class Bucheit joined the U.S. Army from Ohio and was a member of Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. On November 2, 1950, when the 8th Cavalry Regiment was under attack from Chinese Communist Forces near Unsan, North Korea, SFC Bucheit was killed during this action. His body was not recovered at the time of his loss, and he was not identified among remains returned to U.S. custody immediately after the ceasefire. In 2000, a joint U.S./North Korean investigative team interviewed a farmer living who uncovered human remains while performing reclamation work near Unsan. The team excavated the burial site and recovered several more sets of human remains, and SFC Bucheit was eventually identified from among these remains.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Dayton Daily News (1950)