Percy C. Mathews

World War II
Service #34168544
Unit422nd Bomber Squadron, 305th Bomber Group, Heavy
RankStaff Sergeant U.S. Army Air Forces
Entered Service From Alabama
Date of DeathMay 29 1943
StatusRecovered
Memorialized
Tablets of the Missing
Air Medal
Purple Heart
Air Medal, Purple Heart
Notes

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency exhumed the remains of an Unknown buried in Plot K Row 11 Grave 18 at Brittany American Cemetery with the belief that an identification could be made. Laboratory analysis and circumstantial evidence were used to positively identify the remains as belonging to SSgt. Percy C. Mathews, 422nd Bomber Squadron, 305th Bomber Group, Heavy, who lost his life May 29, 1943. His name remains permanently inscribed on the Tablets of the Missing at Cambridge American Cemetery.

rosetta medal
When an individual’s remains have been accounted for by the U.S. Department of Defense, a rosette is placed next to the name on the Wall/Tablet/Court of the Missing to mark that the person now rests in a known gravesite.