Highest Honors Special Operations POW / MIA
United States of America
Headstone of Claude Wesley Mathews
Headstone of Claude Wesley Mathews
U.S. Air Force · United States United States

Claude Wesley Mathews

Airman First Class
1940 – 1965
Purple Heart
Air MedalNational Defense Service MedalVietnam Service MedalRepublic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Vietnam Wall · Panel 04E
Life Keepsakes Service Decorations Shadow Box Memorials In Our Keeping

Airman First Class Claude Wesley Mathews served in the U.S. Air Force. Claude served in the Vietnam War. Claude was 25 years old.

How They Died
Manner Combat Death
Cause Injury, unspecified
Circumstance Killed in action
Place Ninh Thuan
Keepsakes
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Service Record
U.S. Air Force
4TH AIR COMMANDO SQDN, 6250TH CBT SPT GROUP, 13TH AF
43550: Flight Engineer Specialist
A1C
NINH THUAN
1965
Pay grade E04.
Conflicts
Vietnam War
Awards & Decorations 5

For service and achievement

Purple Heart
Air Medal

Campaign and service medals

National Defense Service Medal
Vietnam Service Medal

Foreign awards

Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Memorials
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Panel 04E · Line 21 cut as CLAUDE W MATHEWS
In Our Keeping
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Claude Wesley Mathews
Airman First Class
U.S. Air Force
- 1965
Purple Heart
Air Medal National Defense Service Medal Vietnam Service Medal Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal

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