Nineteen women from Maryland served during World War II in the 6888th Battalion, the predominantly black postal unit now the ...
Nineteen women from Maryland served during World War II in the 6888th Battalion, which is featured in the film “The Six ...
The Six Triple Eight, officially the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, deployed to Europe for roughly a year during World War II. Some 855 women came from across the U.S. to process mail ...
"They did not send us because they thought ... honoring members of the 6888th in 2015. In 2022, President Joe Biden awarded the battalion the Congressional Gold Medal. You don't need great ...
In February 1945, the 6888th Central Postal Battalion ... the women and their work and in 2021, legislation was passed by the U.S. Senate to award the women with a Congressional Gold Medal ...
By the time the 6888th Central ... In 2022, the battalion received the Congressional Gold Medal. Charity Adams Earley talks businesses with other Women’s Army Corps members at her desk in Des Moines, ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bill to award Congressional Gold Medals to the 1980 “Miracle on Ice” Olympic hockey team was reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate on Wednesday.