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Personal memoirs of Louie Mathieson, Pearl Harbor survivor, third of four sons from Ella and John Mathieson of Minnesota, husband of Vera Payson of Maine and father to John Mathieson, James Mathieson, Nancy Jeffers, Ann Mathieson, and Mary-Jo Smalley. Louie describes his life growing up in Minnesota, joining the Civilian Conservation Corps at 15, and then joining the Navy at 17 with his brother Harry. He details the Sunday morning attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 from the standpoint of a sailor on the USS Oklahoma, his escape and rescue from the waters of the Pacific and his reassignment to the USS Massachusetts. He finishes with details of his life with his family on the coast of Maine. One Sunday Morning by Louis R Mathieson
