Schoening, Robert G
Army Private 1st class

Robert G Schoening from Washington, Whatcom county.

Service era: Korea

Date of death: Monday, November 27, 1950
Death details: On February 25, 2009, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC, now DPAA) identified the remains of Corporal Robert George Schoening, missing from the Korean War. Corporal Schoening entered the U.S. Army from Washington and was a member of Company C, 65th Combat Engineer Battalion, 25th Infantry Division. On November 27, 1950, Company C was holding a position near Hill 222, just south of the Kuryong River in the Pyongan-Pukto Province of North Korea, when they came under attack by Chinese Communist Forces. CPL Schoening was killed during this combat and his body was not recovered at the time. In 2000, a joint U.S./North Korean team excavated a burial site at Hill 222 and recovered human remains; U.S. analysts used modern forensic techniques to eventually identify CPL Schoening among the remains recovered.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency