USS Growler (SSG-577)
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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
Filtered By
- Subject: Cold War, October 1945–March 15, 1974 X
- Subject: Decommissioning, May 25, 1964 X
- Subject: Growler -- enlisted mess X
- Subject: Humor -- Practical Jokes X
- Subject: United States (nation) -- Hawaii (state) -- Honolulu (county) -- Oahu (island) -- Pearl Harbor Naval Reservation (defense installation) X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Celebrations -- Holidays -- Christmas 1
- Cleaning -- Laundry Operations 1
- Disposal -- Garbage Disposal 1
- Electronics Technician Seaman, ETSN 1
- Food 1
- Growler -- crew's quarters 1
- Growler -- forward torpedo room 1
- Growler -- galley 1
- Growler -- missile checkout and guidance center 1
- Growler -- storekeeper’s office 1
- Guided Missiles -- Cruise Missiles -- Regulus 1 1
- Inventory 1
- John F. Kennedy Assassination, November 22, 1963 1
- Maintenance -- Ship Maintenance 1
- Military Forces (United States) -- Navy 1
- Navigation 1
- Navigation -- Inertial Navigation 1
- Optical Equipment -- Periscopes -- Submarine Periscopes 1
- Performance Tests -- Psychological Tests 1
- Petty Officer 1st Class, E-6 1
- Recreation 1
- Russia (nation) -- Primorskiy Kray (kray) -- Vladivostok (inhabited place) 1
- Seaman, E-3 1
- Storekeeper 1st Class Petty Officer, SK1 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
- Vacuum -- High Vacuum 1 ∧ less
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