Trivia

During World War II, inadvertently led a half squad of men into Dachau Concentration Camp making them the first Allied troops to enter the camp after it had been evacuated by the fleeing German military only hours earlier.

Worked together with his younger brother Richard M. Sherman.

The Sherman Brothers were awarded the 2008 American National Medal of the Arts by President George W. Bush in Washington, D.C. for their services to music.

"Moose: Chapters From My Life" (which is Robert B. Sherman's autobiography) was released posthumously by AuthorHouse publishers. It was edited by Sherman's youngest son, Robert J. Sherman. The book and author and book are cited as source material in the ending credits of Saving Mr. Banks (2013).

Grandfather of Joshua Kirshbaum (1990); Alex Sherman (1991); twins Ameila and Sarah Kirshbaum (1993); and Ryan Sherman (1995).

Along with his brother, he has three of films play consecutively at New York's prestigious Radio City Misic Hall in 1973 with "Charlotte's Web" "Tom Sawyer" and "Mary Poppins".

Son of Al Sherman and Rosa Dancis Sherman.

Father of Laurie Shane (born April 16, 1955); Jeffrey Craig (born June 24, 1957); Andrea Tracy (born June 17, 1960); and Robert Jason Sherman (born July 16, 1968).

He and Richard M. Sherman were awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6814 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.

Inducted into the American Songwriters Hall of Fame on June 9, 2005 in New York City alongside his brother, Richard M. Sherman, Bill Withers, Steve Cropper, John Fogerty, Isaac Hayes and David Porter.

The classic Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) was adapted into a London West End Musical in 2002 and performed at the London Palladium. It was also nominated for a 2003 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for the Hilton Award for Best New Musical of 2002.

Following his death, his funeral service was in Culver City, California's Hillside Memorial Park chapel concluding with his entombment within its Canaan Mausoleum.

Richard M. Sherman and his musical, "Mary Poppins" at the Paramount Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2015 Joseph Jefferson Equity Award for Large Musical Production.

"Disney's Mary Poppins" at the Mercury Theater Chicago was nominated for a 2017 Joseph Jefferson Equity Award for Midsize Musical Production.