Percy was a Staff Sergeant in the 422nd Bomber Squadron, 305th Bomber Group, of the U.S. Army Air Corps. He served as a waist gunner aboard a B-17 "Flying Fortress" bomber. Percy's plane was shot down over France, and he was listed as missing in action.
DNA tests have recently confirmed the remains found in a French cemetery are those of Percy. Returned home after 75 years, Percy Clayton Mathews is now buried at Barrancas National Cemetery in Pensacola, FL.
MATHEWS, PERCY C
SSGT US ARMY AIR FORCES
WORLD WAR II
DATE OF BIRTH: 02/10/1918
DATE OF DEATH: 05/29/1943
BURIED AT: SECTION 55 SITE 9 (Click to view the cemetery map)
DNA tests have recently confirmed the remains found in a French cemetery are those of Percy. Returned home after 75 years, Percy Clayton Mathews is now buried at Barrancas National Cemetery in Pensacola, FL.
MATHEWS, PERCY C
SSGT US ARMY AIR FORCES
WORLD WAR II
DATE OF BIRTH: 02/10/1918
DATE OF DEATH: 05/29/1943
BURIED AT: SECTION 55 SITE 9 (Click to view the cemetery map)
Percy was a Staff Sergeant in the 422nd Bomber Squadron, 305th Bomber Group, of the U.S. Army Air Corps. He served as a waist gunner aboard a B-17 "Flying Fortress" bomber. Percy's plane was shot down over France, and he was listed as missing in action.
DNA tests have recently confirmed the remains found in a French cemetery are those of Percy. Returned home after 75 years, Percy Clayton Mathews is now buried at Barrancas National Cemetery in Pensacola, FL.
MATHEWS, PERCY C
SSGT US ARMY AIR FORCES
WORLD WAR II
DATE OF BIRTH: 02/10/1918
DATE OF DEATH: 05/29/1943
BURIED AT: SECTION 55 SITE 9 (Click to view the cemetery map)
DNA tests have recently confirmed the remains found in a French cemetery are those of Percy. Returned home after 75 years, Percy Clayton Mathews is now buried at Barrancas National Cemetery in Pensacola, FL.
MATHEWS, PERCY C
SSGT US ARMY AIR FORCES
WORLD WAR II
DATE OF BIRTH: 02/10/1918
DATE OF DEATH: 05/29/1943
BURIED AT: SECTION 55 SITE 9 (Click to view the cemetery map)
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