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CLAUDE WESLEY MATHEWS
Airman First Class · U.S. Air Force
May 31, 1940 – December 17, 1965
Service recordClaude Wesley Mathews, of Franklinville, New Jersey, served as an Airman First Class in the U.S. Air Force. He died on December 17, 1965, in Ninh Thuan Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4E · Line 21
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Air Force
- Rank
- Airman First Class (A1C)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- May 31, 1940
- Home of record
- Franklinville, New Jersey (Gloucester County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 17, 1965
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Ninh Thuan
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
12 names on the Wall carry the date December 17, 1965; nine of them were lost in Ninh Thuan Province. In December 1965, 326 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 4E, Line 21
- RALPH LEON HINSONStaff Sergeant · December 17, 1965
- RONALD GENE MCKINNEYSeaman · December 17, 1965
- JOHNSON ASHLEY MEADEAirman First Class · December 17, 1965
- DAVID WALLACE WICKHAM IILieutenant · December 17, 1965
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.