Records of the U.S. Marine Corps. 1775 - 9999. Records Relating to Women Marines

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Records of the U.S. Marine Corps. 1775 - 9999. Records Relating to Women Marines

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National Archives at College Park

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Towle, Katherine Amelia, 1898-1986

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Katherine Amelia Towle was born in 1898 in Towle, California (The town was named for her paternal grandfather and his two brothers who came from Vermont in the early 1850's). She moved to Berkeley in 1908. She graduated with honors from University of California, Berkeley in 1920, then later earned a Master's degree in political science in 1935. She entered the Marine Corps in 1943 and served until 1953. After retiring from the Marine Corps, Colonel Towle was associated with the Univer...