During a frigid January night in 1943, USS Growler, a Gato-class submarine under Commander Howard W. Gilmore, silently hunted ...

The USS Growler is the only nuclear-missile submarine in the US that's open to the public. Commissioned in 1958, the USS Growler patrolled seas off the coast of Russia during the Cold War.

The USS Growler conducts sea trials off Groton, Connecticut, February 1942. (Naval History and Heritage Command) Approaching directly, Gilmore loosed two torpedoes, dealing serious damage to ...

The USS Growler is the only nuclear missile submarine in the US that's open to the public. Commissioned in 1958, the USS Growler patrolled seas off the coast of Russia during the Cold War. The ...

The Growler was seen launching from the USS Truman aircraft carrier with a heavy payload of four AGM-88E AARGM missiles and without the ALQ-99 TJS. In a rare configuration, ...

The day after the Dec. 7 attack on Pearl Harbor Gilmore was transferred to the Gato-class submarine USS Growler (SS-174). The boat's first war patrol was to the Aleutians, where, ...

The USS Growler was once a top-secret US Navy submarine that patrolled the ocean's depths during the Cold War. Armed with nuclear missiles and operated by a crew of 90 men, Growler's firepower acted ...

The USS Growler carried all of the food and supplies it would need to sustain itself during patrols that lasted over two months. A storekeeper kept track of non-food supplies such as light bulbs, pens ...

Commissioned in 1958, the USS Growler patrolled seas off the coast of Russia during the Cold War. I toured the only nuclear missile submarine in the US open to the public. Take a look inside.