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Williams, Jessica

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Samuel Higa Oral History

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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: Electronics Technician Seaman, ETSN X
  • Subject: Humor -- Practical Jokes X
  • Subject: Navigation -- Inertial Navigation X
  • Subject: United States (nation) -- Hawaii (state) -- Honolulu (county) -- Oahu (island) X