Roll of Honor

Midshipmen in the Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps program pass in review just south of College Walk.


Robert E. Buchmann

  • School: Columbia College
  • Class Year: 1950
  • War: Korean War
  • Date of Death: May 29, 1951

Second Lieutenant Robert Everett Buchmann was a platoon leader in Company F, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division, U.S. Marines. He was leading his platoon in an assault on an enemy position in South Korea when he was killed by enemy fire, May 29, 1951.

Robert E. Buchmann

Tributes

My great uncle whom I never got to meet. You mean more to me than you'll ever know.

- Mauren Tierney

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