Rank/Rate	Quartermaster, First Class
Service Number	811 44 04
Birth Date	January 13, 1911
From	Ridgewood, New Jersey
Decorations	Silver Star, Purple Heart
Command	UDT-10, part of a Special Reconnaissance Detachment carried aboard USS Burrfish (SS-312)
Loss Date	August 20, 1944*
Location	Gagil Tomil, Yap
Circumstances	Taken prisoner while on reconnaissance mission. Executed in captivity.
Remarks	Robert was born in Jersey City, New Jersey.

*Date of capture, according to Japanese sources.
Information courtesy of Paul W. Wittmer. Photo and additional information from USS Burrfish Reconnaissance of Yap on 13 August 1944.  Additional information also from Sue Ann Dunford, author of More Than Scuttlebutt - U.S. Navy Demolition Men in WWII.

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