Robert Riddlebaugh

Private, U.S. Marine Corps
Serial: 00389202

Entered the Service from: Pennsylvania
Died: June 2, 1943
Missing in Action or Buried at Sea
Tablets of the Missing
Manila American Cemetery
Manila, Philippines

Awards: Commendation Ribbon

Private Robert Riddlebaugh was born about 1923 to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Riddlebaugh. He grew up in Pennsauken, New Jersey, where his family made their home at 2021 North Center Street. He graduated from Merchantville High School, and was employed at the RCA-Victor plant in Camden, New Jersey before enlisting in the Marine Corps in April of 1942. He went overseas in January of 1943.

The Department of the Navy notified his parents that Private Riddlebaugh was missing in action on June 2, 1943. He had been serving as an airplane gunner, as reported in the July 5, 1943 edition of the Camden Courier-Post.