USS Torsk SS-423
1945
Photographs from the collection of Ensign Lloyd W Cornell, JR USNR
USS Torsk Crewmember 1945-46
Pictures courtesy of David Cornell
Post-War party at Polly's Inn in Norwich, CT
Crew photo
Post-War party at Polly's Inn in Norwich, CT
Cutting a cake
Post-War party at Polly's Inn in Norwich, CT
Torsk Officers, standing L-R:
Unknown Crew Member taking a drink, Unknown, LT George P Rogers
Torsk Officers, seated L-R:
Unknown, Ensign Lloyd W Cornell Jr, LT Roy Wertmuller, Unknown, Unknown, LT Lamar Woodward, Unknown
Ensign Lloyd W Cornell, Jr's Mighty Mine Dodgers Certificate, awarded to those who went into the Sea of Japan through minefields.
The text reads:
Submarine Force Pacific Fleet
extends to
Ensign Lloyd Waterman Cornell Jr
membership in the distinguished order of
Mighty Mine Dodgers
a small band of brave men of high courage who have completed with skill,
ingenuity, and tenacity a task that required trasit of the most dangerouse of waters, through enemy
minefields and penetrating what the Emperor of Japan considered his inviolate waters...the Sea of Japan.
No weapon of Dai Nippon could halt these determined men. They did willfully and with due knowledge of the
dangers involved, carrou out their assigned task to emerge with incontrovertible proof of the succes of their
daring, thus becoming membvers of the Mighty Mine Dodgers and entitled to all the rights and privileges
thereof.
Let all men who read this scroll be forever grateful and respectful of those heroic American Submariners
who went in and especially to those who gave their lives in this operation. The job was superlatively
"well done"
Signed, WA Lockwood Jr
Vice Admiral, USN
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