Personal File · AirmanKilled in ActionPassed 12 Oct 1944

Paul L. Mathison.

Co-Pilot · 328th Squadron · Of Dane County, Wisconsin, WI.

Paul L. Mathison
Serial No. O-421779

The Man Behind the Name

§ Biography

Capt. Paul L. Mathison served as co-pilot aboard B-24J 42-50606, nicknamed 'Jukebox Jenny', on the 12 October 1944 mission to Osnabruck.

Mathison was killed when the aircraft was shot down. He was initially interred at the Prisoner of War Cemetery, Achmer, Row 2, Grave 112, per German casualty records (Casualty No. KU 3184). After the war his remains were repatriated and reinterred at the Netherlands American Cemetery, Margraten, Plot P, Row 2, Grave 13.

Service record.

§ As Catalogued
Rank
Captain
Position
Co-Pilot
Serial Number
O-421779
Hometown
Dane County, Wisconsin, WI

Missions flown.

1 catalogued · 12 Oct 1944

The missions below are those we have been able to document for this airman, drawn from flight logs, mission records, and archival sources. It is not necessarily a complete account of every mission flown; gaps may reflect missing documentation, transferred assignments, or records lost to time.

Interment.

§ At Rest
Cemetery
Netherlands American Cemetery
Location
Margraten, Limburg, Netherlands
Burial
Plot P, Row 2, Grave 13

Photographs.

4 on file

Sources.

§ Provenance
United States Army Air Forces · National Archives and Records Administration · 1944
Official record
United States Army Air Forces · National Archives and Records Administration · 1944
Official record