Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: E Troop, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11D – Armor Reconnaissance Specialist
Awards: Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 17-Oct-1945
Hometown: Louisville, Kentucky
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 8-Nov-1965
Start of tour: 20-Aug-1966
Incident date: 24-May-1967
Date of casualty: 24-May-1967
Age at death: 21
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Grenade. Multiple fragmentation wounds.
William Joseph Scherle Jr was passenger in a military vehicle on combat operation when the vehicle hit a hostile mine.
Two Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SGT Johnny Calvin Preston
SP4 William Joseph Scherle Jr
Location of fatality: Quang Ngai, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Saint Michael Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
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