 He was then assigned to an aircraft carrier based in San Francisco that had been badly damaged in the war by a kamikaze airplane.In July 1946 Sachs spoke with the executive officer of the ship, explaining that he wanted to go to college and study physics and received an early honorable discharge from the Navy in August 1946.Sachs earned his bachelors at the University of California, Los Angeles, he then moved to Columbia University, New York for postgraduate study.