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
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- Subject: Cold War, October 1945–March 15, 1974 X
- Subject: Education -- Training -- Military Training -- Naval Training -- Submarine Training X
- Subject: Education -- Training -- Military Training -- Naval Training -- Submarine Training -- Qualifying X
- Subject: Humor -- Practical Jokes X
- Subject: Maintenance -- Ship Maintenance X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Accidents 1
- Decommissioning, May 25, 1964 1
- Disposal -- Garbage Disposal 1
- Electronics Technician Seaman, ETSN 1
- Food 1
- Growler -- control room and attack center 1
- Growler -- enlisted mess 1
- Growler -- galley 1
- Growler -- missile hangar(s), port missile hangar, starboard missile hangar 1
- Growler -- sail 1
- Hazing 1
- Hygiene 1
- Liberty 1
- Military Forces (United States) -- Navy 1
- Navigation -- Celestial Navigation 1
- Optical Equipment -- Periscopes -- Submarine Periscopes 1
- Performance Tests -- Psychological Tests 1
- Petty Officer 3rd Class, E-4 1
- Quartermaster 3rd Class Petty Officer, QM3 1
- Recreation 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) -- Connecticut (state) -- New London (county) -- Groton (inhabited place) -- Naval Submarine Base New London (submarine base) 1
- United States (nation) -- Hawaii (state) -- Honolulu (county) -- Oahu (island) 1
- United States (nation) -- Hawaii (state) -- Honolulu (county) -- Oahu (island) -- Pearl Harbor Naval Reservation (defense installation) 1
- Vacuum -- High Vacuum 1 ∧ less
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