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Marion Townsend, Interviewed By Phyllis Von Herrlich, Marion Adell Townsend
Marion Townsend, Interviewed By Phyllis Von Herrlich, Marion Adell Townsend
MF144 Women in the Military
Marion Townsend, interviewed by Phyllis von Herrlich, January 6, 2002. Townsend talks about joining the service in 1942; twenty-eight when she joined the Navy; Hunter College for boot camp training; lived in dorms; went to store keeper school; ordered supplies; was in for two years; trained with just women; didn’t get trained to shoot a gun; it was either get out or go to Japan; naval reserve for two years; type a certain WPM to pass store keeper school; went to Gates Business College; went to the University of Maine for a year then to Farmington; teaching for thirty-seven years; …