USS Growler (SSG-577)
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
James W. Day Oral History
Item
Identifier: OHP 130
Scope and Contents
James Day served aboard Growler as a hospital corpsman from 1961 to 1963. He began his interview by discussing why he joined the Navy and providing a brief overview of his service. Day noted boot camp, hospital corps school in San Diego at the Balboa Naval Hospital, operating room technician school at Bethesda Maryland Naval Hospital, being stationed at Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune, and his time as an OR tech aboard the hospital ship Haven during the Korean War. Day also stated that he left...
Dates:
May 24, 2017
Richard Lee Meyers Oral History
Item
Identifier: OHP 037
Scope and Contents
Richard Meyers served aboard Growler as a machinist’s mate second class from October 1961 to September 1963. Meyers began his interview by explaining his decision to leave his construction job in Wyoming and join the Navy. He then discussed boot camp and volunteering for the submarine service. Meyers continued, recounting the first time he saw Growler. The submarine was in dry dock in Pearl Harbor, which gave Meyers the opportunity to walk underneath Growler and see the submarine from a...
Dates:
July 2, 2014
Samuel Higa Oral History
Item
Identifier: OHP 120
Scope and Contents
Samuel Higa served aboard Growler as a seaman from 1963 to 1964. He began his interview by discussing his family’s relocation to a concentration camp for Japanese Americans in Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Higa then stated that his family moved to Southern California, where he completed high school and briefly attended UCLA, before joining the Navy. After explaining how he enlisted, Higa discussed boot camp, electronics school, submarine school, and SINS (Ship’s Inertial Navigation System)...
Dates:
September 16, 2016
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Cleaning -- Laundry Operations 2
- Disposal -- Garbage Disposal 2
- Education -- Training -- Military Training -- Naval Training -- Submarine Training -- Qualifying 2
- Growler -- missile hangar(s), port missile hangar, starboard missile hangar 2
- Military Forces (United States) -- Navy 2
- United States (nation) -- Hawaii (state) -- Honolulu (county) -- Oahu (island) -- Pearl Harbor Naval Reservation (defense installation) 2
- Vacuum -- High Vacuum 2
- Business Administration -- Finance -- Income -- Salaries 1
- Communications Technicians, CTs 1
- Decommissioning, May 25, 1964 1
- Education -- Training -- Basic Training 1
- Education -- Training -- Military Training -- Naval Training -- Submarine Training 1
- Electronics Technician Seaman, ETSN 1
- Engines -- Engine Components -- Crankcases -- Crankshafts 1
- Engines -- Engine Components -- Engine Fuel Systems Components -- Fuel Injectors 1
- Engines -- Heat Engines -- Internal Combustion Engines -- Compression Ignition Engines -- Diesel Engines 1
- Families (Human) -- Family Members 1
- Families (Human) -- Family Members -- Wives 1
- Fluids -- Liquids -- Water -- Distilled Water 1
- Growler -- engine room 1
- Growler -- engine room control booth 1
- Growler -- forward torpedo room 1
- Growler -- missile checkout and guidance center 1
- Growler -- sail 1
- Growler -- wardroom 1
- Hazing 1
- Hospital Corpsman Petty Officer 1st Class, HM1 1
- Humor -- Practical Jokes 1
- Hygiene 1
- Japan (nation) -- Kanto (region (administrative division)) -- Kanagawa–ken (prefecture) -- Yokosuka (inhabited Place) -- Yokosuka Naval Base (naval base) 1
- Life Sciences -- Medicine -- Dentistry 1
- Life Sciences -- Medicine -- Military Medicine 1
- Logistics -- Supplies -- Medical Supplies 1
- Machinist's Mate 2nd Class Petty Officer, MM2 1
- Maintenance -- Ship Maintenance 1
- Maintenance Equipment -- Drydocks 1
- Medical Services -- First Aid 1
- Navigation 1
- Navigation -- Inertial Navigation 1
- Performance Tests -- Psychological Tests 1
- Personnel Management -- Promotion (Advancement) 1
- Pest Control -- Insect Control 1
- Petty Officer 1st Class, E-6 1
- Petty Officer 2nd Class, E-5 1
- Physiology -- Stress(Physiology) -- Motion Sickness 1
- Seaman, E-3 1
- Strategy -- Deterrence 1
- United States (nation) -- Alaska (state) -- Aleutians West (national division) -- Adak (inhabited place) -- Naval Air Facility Adak (air base) 1
- United States (nation) -- California (state) -- Solano (county) -- Mare Island (island) -- Mare Island Naval Shipyard (shipyard) 1
- United States (nation) -- Midway Islands (possession) 1
- Ventilation -- Venting 1
- Wounds and Injuries -- Bone Fractures 1 ∧ less
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