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WWII USS Growler Launch Envelope Lost at Sea
Item: WWII5012

Envelope is post marked Nov. 22, 1941. USS Growler (SS-215), a Gato-class submarine, was the third ship of the United States Navy named for the growler. Her keel was laid down by the Electric Boat Company of Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 2 November 1941 and sponsored by Mrs. Lucile E. Ghormley, wife of Vice Admiral Robert L. Ghormley, Special Naval Observer to the United Kingdom. The boat was commissioned on 20 March 1942.  She was sunk by the Japanese  on November 8, 1944.  Has age staining.