Skip to main content

Williams, Jessica

 Person

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

David E. Bishop Oral History

 Item
Identifier: OHP 118
Scope and Contents David Bishop served on Growler as a torpedoman third class from December 1959 to September 1961. He began his interview by explaining his decision to join the Navy when he was seventeen years old. Bishop then noted boot camp in San Diego and submarine schools in San Francisco, stating that submarined schools taught you the basic systems aboard a submarine and that the actual operation of these systems occurred once you were on board a boat. As Bishop continued, he described his first day on...
Dates: September 16, 2016

Donald Bosetti Oral History

 Item
Identifier: OHP 116
Scope and Contents Donald Bosetti served aboard Growler as an engineman second class from 1959 to 1961. He began his interview by discussing his decision to join the Navy and his experiences in boot camp. Bosetti recalled his first days in the barracks as well as the ensuing arguments and fights that occurred between the recruits from the North and the recruits from the South. He also noted that, as boot camp came to an end, the recruits were given psychological tests, some of which he described in detail, and...
Dates: September 16, 2016

Laurence H. Blackburn, Jr. Oral History

 Item
Identifier: OHP 008
Scope and Contents Laurence Blackburn served as the senior medical officer aboard Intrepid during the ship’s first and second deployments to Vietnam, from 1965 to 1967. Blackburn began his interview by discussing his decision to become a doctor. He then recounted joining the Navy, meeting his wife while in medical school, and attending flight surgeon school. Blackburn then continued, relating his decision to serve aboard Intrepid rather than Randolph, and shortly thereafter learning that Intrepid was being...
Dates: July 12, 2013

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

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

Filtered By

  • Subject: Humor -- Practical Jokes X

Additional filters:

Subject
Military Forces (United States) -- Navy 7
United States (nation) -- Hawaii (state) -- Honolulu (county) -- Oahu (island) -- Pearl Harbor Naval Reservation (defense installation) 7
Education -- Training -- Military Training -- Naval Training -- Submarine Training -- Qualifying 6
Recreation 6
Strategy -- Deterrence 6
∨ more
Growler -- control room and attack center 5
Growler -- crew's quarters 5
Guided Missiles -- Cruise Missiles -- Regulus 1 5
United States (nation) -- Connecticut (state) -- New London (county) -- Groton (inhabited place) -- Naval Submarine Base New London (submarine base) 5
Accidents 4
Engines -- Heat Engines -- Internal Combustion Engines -- Compression Ignition Engines -- Diesel Engines 4
Families (Human) -- Family Members 4
Food 4
Growler -- forward torpedo room 4
Hygiene 4
Performance Tests -- Psychological Tests 4
United States (nation) -- Alaska (state) -- Aleutians West (national division) -- Adak (inhabited place) -- Naval Air Facility Adak (air base) 4
Cleaning -- Laundry Operations 3
Communications Technicians, CTs 3
Decommissioning, May 25, 1964 3
Detection -- Submarine Detection 3
Families (Human) -- Family Members -- Wives 3
Growler -- enlisted mess 3
John F. Kennedy Assassination, November 22, 1963 3
Liberty 3
Navigation 3
Navigation -- Inertial Navigation 3
Optical Equipment -- Periscopes -- Submarine Periscopes 3
Petty Officer 1st Class, E-6 3
Recreation -- Entertainment -- Movies 3
Celebrations -- Holidays -- Christmas 2
Discipline -- Captain's Mast 2
Education -- Training -- Basic Training 2
Fluids -- Liquids -- Water -- Distilled Water 2
Growler -- missile hangar(s), port missile hangar, starboard missile hangar 2
Growler -- radio room 2
Growler -- sail 2
Hazing 2
Maintenance -- Ship Maintenance 2
Navigation -- Celestial Navigation 2
Ordnance -- Ammunition -- Antiship Ammunition -- Torpedoes 2
Personnel Management -- Promotion (Advancement) 2
Petty Officer 3rd Class, E-4 2
Recreation -- Games 2
Russia (nation) -- Primorskiy Kray (kray) -- Vladivostok (inhabited place) 2
Security -- Information Security -- Classified Materials 2
Vacuum -- High Vacuum 2
Weapons -- Antisubmarine Weapons -- Depth Charges 2
Atmospheric Sciences -- Meteorology -- Meteorological Phenomena -- Storms -- Hurricanes 1
Ceremonies -- Crossing the Line 1
Commander, O-5 1
Communication And Radio Systems 1
Cuban Missile Crisis, October 16 - 28, 1962 1
Damage -- Damage Assessment 1
Detectors -- Acoustic Detectors -- Hydrophones 1
Discipline 1
Disposal -- Garbage Disposal 1
Education -- Training -- Military Training -- Naval Training -- Submarine Training 1
Education -- Training -- Military Training -- Survival Training 1
Egypt (nation) -- Suez (governorate) -- Suez Canal (canal) 1
Electronics Technician Seaman, ETSN 1
Engineering -- Aeronautical Engineering -- Space Technology 1
Engineman Petty Officer 2nd Class, EN2 1
First Vietnam Deployment, April – November 1966 1
Growler -- chief petty officer quarters 1
Growler -- engine room 1
Growler -- engine room control booth 1
Growler -- galley 1
Growler -- missile checkout and guidance center 1
Growler -- sonar room 1
Growler -- stern room 1
Growler -- storekeeper’s office 1
Growler -- toilet 1
Health -- Mental Health 1
Intrepid -- hangar deck -- fantail 1
Intrepid -- second deck -- sick bay 1
Intrepid -- second deck -- wardroom 1
Inventory 1
Japan (nation) -- Kanto (region (administrative division)) -- Kanagawa–ken (prefecture) -- Yokosuka (inhabited Place) -- Yokosuka Naval Base (naval base) 1
Lieutenant, O-3 1
Life Sciences -- Medicine -- Emergency Medicine 1
Maintenance Equipment -- Drydocks 1
Master Chief Petty Officer, E-9 1
Medical Department UF 1
Medicine -- Military Medicine 1
Military Personnel -- Military Surgeons -- Flight Surgeons 1
Morale 1
Navigation -- Dead Reckoning 1
Navigation -- Navigational Aids -- Navigation Charts 1
Navigation -- Radio Navigation -- Hyperbolic Navigation -- Loran 1
Noise -- Noise(Sound) -- Submarine Noise 1
Personnel Management -- Absenteeism 1
Petty Officer 2nd Class, E-5 1
Philippines (nation) -- Olongapo (special city) -- Olongapo (inhabited place) -- U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay (naval base) 1
Poisoning 1
Puerto Rico (dependent state) 1
Quartermaster 1st Class Petty Officer, QM1 1
Quartermaster 3rd Class Petty Officer, QM3 1
∧ less