Disinterred Unknown

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.