Herreid, Robert Dale
Army Staff sergeant

Robert Dale Herreid from Aurora, Illinois.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: October 10, 1968
Death details: On October 10, 1968, a Mobile Strike Force company with American advisors was ambushed by a large enemy force in the Co To Mountain area, Chau Doc Province, South Vietnam. The company was forced to fall back after suffering casualties. The area was then subjected to heavy artillery bombardment in subsequent battles.

Specialist 5 Robert Dale Herreid, who entered the U.S. Army from Illinois, served with Detachment A-402P, Company D, 5th Special Forces Group, and was an American advisor operating with this Mobile Strike Force company at the time of the ambush. He was hit and killed during the ensuing firefight, in the vicinity of (GC) VS 975 478, and the unit could not evacuate his body as they fell back. Later searches of the battle area failed to locate his remains. Following the incident, the Army promoted SP5 Herreid to the rank of Staff Sergeant. Today, Staff Sergeant Herreid is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency