A truce was imminent. so the Torsk sought to avoid further contact with enemy ships. After being pursued. the Torsk finally sank its pursuerthe last sinking of the war. Mr. Schmidt was the only man aboard the U.S.S. Torsk who had been at Pearl Harbor. Both before and after the war. Mr. Schmidts life details many elements of the American dream. He emigrated from Germany with his family In 1923 when he was 7 years old. Ervin grew up on a farm In Wisconsin. worked in the Civilian Conservation Corps in the late 1930s. and then joined the Navy in 1940. He met and married his wife during the war.
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