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Enlisting in the U.S. Marine Corps as a rifleman, he was assigned to the 2nd Raider Battalion, the U.S. Marines' light infantry amphibious unit created during World War II.
Captured during the raid on Makin Island, he was executed on October 16, 1942. Private Mattison was never recovered.
He is memorialized in the Court of the Missing, Honolulu, Hawaii.
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*Also see - Corporal Joseph N. Gifford
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Blair, WI 54616, USA
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