USS Growler (SSG-577)
Organization
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
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
Uel W. Smith Oral History
Item
Identifier: OHP 113
Scope and Contents
Uel Smith served aboard Growler as a seaman from 1958 to 1960. Smith began his interview by discussing the first time he saw Growler and explaining how he came to serve aboard Growler. He then backtracked and stated that he joined the Navy with a group of friends from Missouri when he was 17 years old. Smith continued, noting that he attended boot camp in Bainbridge, Maryland, and sub school in New London, CT. He described the submarine specific training he received, such as exercises...
Dates:
September 14, 2016
Wayne J. Mehl Oral History
Item
Identifier: OHP 137
Scope and Contents
Wayne Mehl served aboard Growler as the engineering officer and the nuclear weapons officer from 1961 to 1964. He began his interview by discussing his childhood growing up on a naval base in San Francisco during World War II and noting how his father, a lieutenant during the First World War, heavily influenced his decision to join the Navy. Mehl then discussed his education at Stanford University and explained his decision to join the NROTC program, stating that his engineering degree,...
Dates:
June 29, 2017
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- Subject: Education -- Training -- Military Training -- Naval Training -- Submarine Training X
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- Military Forces (United States) -- Navy 14
- Education -- Training -- Military Training -- Naval Training -- Submarine Training -- Qualifying 13
- Guided Missiles -- Cruise Missiles -- Regulus 1 11
- Recreation 10
- Education -- Training -- Military Training -- Naval Training -- Submarine Training 9
- Food 9
- Strategy -- Deterrence 9
- United States (nation) -- Hawaii (state) -- Honolulu (county) -- Oahu (island) -- Pearl Harbor Naval Reservation (defense installation) 9
- Families (Human) -- Family Members 8
- Families (Human) -- Family Members -- Wives 8
- Humor -- Practical Jokes 8
- Hygiene 8
- United States (nation) -- Alaska (state) -- Aleutians West (national division) -- Adak (inhabited place) -- Naval Air Facility Adak (air base) 8
- Cleaning -- Laundry Operations 7
- Growler -- control room and attack center 7
- Growler -- enlisted mess 7
- Growler -- sail 7
- Accidents 6
- Recreation -- Entertainment -- Movies 6
- United States (nation) -- Connecticut (state) -- New London (county) -- Groton (inhabited place) -- Naval Submarine Base New London (submarine base) 6
- Growler -- crew's quarters 5
- Liberty 5
- Maintenance Equipment -- Drydocks 5
- Navigation 5
- Optical Equipment -- Periscopes -- Submarine Periscopes 5
- Petty Officer 3rd Class, E-4 5
- Vacuum -- High Vacuum 5
- Communications Technicians, CTs 4
- Decommissioning, May 25, 1964 4
- Engines -- Heat Engines -- Internal Combustion Engines -- Compression Ignition Engines -- Diesel Engines 4
- Growler -- missile hangar(s), port missile hangar, starboard missile hangar 4
- John F. Kennedy Assassination, November 22, 1963 4
- Navigation -- Inertial Navigation 4
- Performance Tests -- Psychological Tests 4
- Detection -- Submarine Detection 3
- Disposal -- Garbage Disposal 3
- Growler -- forward torpedo room 3
- Growler -- galley 3
- Growler -- missile checkout and guidance center 3
- Growler -- sonar room 3
- Hazing 3
- Ordnance -- Ammunition -- Antiship Ammunition -- Torpedoes 3
- Petty Officer 1st Class, E-6 3
- Recreation -- Games 3
- Russia (nation) -- Kamchatskiy Kray (kray) -- Kamchatka (peninsula) 3
- Russia (nation) -- Kamchatskiy Kray (kray) -- Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy (inhabited place) 3
- Russia (nation) -- Primorskiy Kray (kray) -- Vladivostok (inhabited place) 3
- Sonar 3
- United States (nation) -- Hawaii (state) -- Honolulu (county) -- Oahu (island) -- Honolulu (inhabited place) 3
- Celebrations -- Holidays -- Christmas 2
- Cuban Missile Crisis, October 16 - 28, 1962 2
- Damage -- Damage Assessment 2
- Damage Control 2
- Discipline -- Captain's Mast 2
- Education -- Training -- Basic Training 2
- Fluids -- Liquids -- Water -- Distilled Water 2
- Growler -- wardroom 2
- Maintenance -- Ship Maintenance 2
- Navigation -- Celestial Navigation 2
- Navigation -- Radio Navigation -- Hyperbolic Navigation -- Loran 2
- Noise -- Noise(Sound) -- Submarine Noise 2
- Personnel Management -- Promotion (Advancement) 2
- Petty Officer 2nd Class, E-5 2
- Seaman, E-3 2
- Security -- Information Security -- Classified Materials 2
- Sonar -- Passive Sonar 2
- Sonar Equipment 2
- Tubes -- Torpedo Tubes 2
- United States (nation) -- California (state) -- San Diego (county) -- San Diego (inhabited place) -- Naval Training Center San Diego (naval base) 2
- United States (nation) -- Maine (state) -- York (county) -- Kittery (inhabited place) -- Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (shipyard) 2
- United States (nation) -- Midway Islands (possession) 2
- Business Administration -- Finance -- Income -- Salaries 1
- Commissioning, August 30, 1958 1
- Communication And Radio Systems 1
- Damage 1
- Defense Systems -- Countermeasures -- Electronic Countermeasures 1
- Detectors -- Acoustic Detectors -- Hydrophones 1
- Discipline 1
- Disposal -- Waste Disposal -- Sewage Disposal 1
- Education -- Training -- Military Training -- Survival Training 1
- Electronics Technician Seaman, ETSN 1
- Executive Officer 1
- Fire Control Technician (Missile Guidance Systems) Petty Officer 2nd Class, FTG2 1
- Fire Control Technician (Missile Guidance Systems) Petty Officer 3rd Class, FTG3 1
- Food -- Cake 1
- Growler -- chief petty officer quarters 1
- Growler -- officer stateroom 1
- Growler -- radio room 1
- Growler -- stern room 1
- Growler -- storekeeper’s office 1
- Growler -- toilet 1
- Growler -- washroom 1
- Hospital Corpsman Petty Officer 1st Class, HM1 1
- Hygiene -- Shower Facilities 1
- Intelligence -- Military Intelligence 1
- Intelligence -- Military Intelligence -- Naval Intelligence 1
- Inventory 1
- Japan (nation) -- Kanto (region (administrative division)) -- Kanagawa–ken (prefecture) -- Yokosuka (inhabited Place) -- Yokosuka Naval Base (naval base) 1
- Lieutenant Commander, O-4 1 ∧ less
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