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Allen B. Odette Papers

Historic Owner
Date1961–1963
PeriodCold War
Mediumpaper, ink
ClassificationsCommunication Artifacts
Credit LineCollection of the Intrepid Museum. Gift of Al Odette. A2016.71
Object numberA2016.71
DescriptionExtent: 4 folders

The Allen B. Odette Papers contain materials from his service aboard the submarine USS Growler (SSG-577), including official paperwork and service records, newsletters that were written and printed on Growler, and port-of-call ephemera.

Submarine USS Growler (SSG-577) & Navy Service Records
- Authorization for Welding, Burning and Riveting, October 2, 1961
- Compartments and tanks chart of Growler, n.d.
- Welcome Aboard, USS Halfbeak
- Welcome Aboard, USS Growler
- Graduation Exercises program, US Naval Training Center, Service School Command, August 15, 1961

Newsletters; July - November 1963
- The Scuttlebutt News, July 22, 1963
- The Scuttlebutt News, Editors Special Edition, n.d.
- The Growler Gazzette, 1st Edition, October 30, 1963
- The Growler Gazzette, 3rd Edition, November 10, 1963
- The Growler Gazzette, 5th Edition, November 18, 1963

Correspondence; 1963
- Familygram
- Telegram
- Letter from Gerry Capps, October 16, 1963

Ports of Call ephemera
- Currency
- Military Payment Certificates (5¢, 10¢, 25¢, 50¢, $1, $5)
- Yen (2 100 yen, 2 1000 yen)
- United Air Lines, Inc. ticket stub, December 12, 1963
- MATS Boarding Pass, December 1963
- The New Zebra & Seaside Enlisted Men's Club // Navy Exchange // Yokohama, Japan,
Menu; September 1963 schedule and menu

Business Cards:
- Hotel Utopia, Yokohama
- The Playroom, Honolulu
- Club Alliance, Yokohama
- Bill Lederer's Bar, Honolulu

Poem, "The Haole Aloha"

Program, Music by Starlight, October 16, 1963
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Collections
Typed paper titled “Thanksgiving Dinner” with food menu items listed in black text
William "Ma" D. Irvin
1944–1962
Object number: A2018.04
Handwritten qualification drawing with labeled areas for USS Growler titled “Topside Arrangemen…
Shaun O’Shaughnessy
1960–1966
Object number: A2018.51
Printed citation for the Officers and Men of Submarine Division Eleven with a Naval seal on it
Wayne J. Mehl
ca. 1963
Object number: A2017.28
Printed newspaper clipping for the Mare Island Grapevine dated April 3, 1964 with headline "Gra…
Jack Gabler
June 21, 1963–April 3, 1964
Object number: A2017.56
CD with sepia image of USS Intrepid at sea with text that reads "Oral History Collection"
Peter G. Kochera
June 16, 2017
Object number: OHP.134
Envelope with purple stamp of the Gemini capsule addressed to Miss Kay F. Tiemann
Ronald J. Musgrave
1963–1976
Object number: A2018.68
CD with sepia image of USS Intrepid at sea with text that reads "Oral History Collection"
Robert L. Owens
October 1, 2014
Object number: OHP.059
Red leather bound logbooks
D. Keith Strickland
1963–1975
Object number: A2018.86
CD with sepia image of USS Intrepid at sea with text that reads "Oral History Collection"
Jack Gabler
August 23, 2017
Object number: OHP.142
Yellow printed USS Intrepid 1963 calendar with a drawing of a sailor at the helm
Robert L. Paschall
1958–1964
Object number: A2018.102
Printed memorandum "Commissioning ceremony" dated August 6, 1943
John M. Duthie
August 6, 1943–April 11, 1988
Object number: A2014.22
CD with sepia image of USS Intrepid at sea with text that reads "Oral History Collection"
Samuel T. Higa
September 16, 2016
Object number: OHP.120