Known as the “Six Triple Eight,” this noteworthy unit of female Soldiers made an indelible impact on the war, while serving ...
some 1,550 miles away from Cyprus Researchers uncovered two standing stones featuring anthropomorphic carvings and a model of a "desert kite" used to trap wild gazelles The 6888th Central Postal ...
A free symposium at the museum Feb. 15 will look at African American engagment in World War II and its place in social ...
The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion ... to work on another backlog over the channel. All the American mail passed through a postal depot in Sutton Coldfield near the Royal Mail Delivery ...
The “impossible” mail-sorting task of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the only female African American unit to ... “The best regiment in the First World War was the 369th ...
Netflix gave us a feel-good movie filled with powerful female leads and a lot of historical appeal for people interested in ...
Tyler Perry’s new Netflix film, The Six Triple Eight, tells the story of the 6888th Central Postal ... mostly African American, were sent to Britain in February 1945. Their goal was to boost morale by ...
On Feb. 5, 2025, the foundation is hosting a free virtual screening of the documentary feature, "Black Women & WWII: The 6888th Central Postal ... The mail, intended for American service members ...
What those 855 women did was sort the mail, mountains of it ... As members of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, Vivian Elzie (Taylor’s mother) and her sistren were challenged ...
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 in the European ...