Mildred Hooper’s all-female unit — the 6888th Central Directory Battalion — sailed across the Atlantic during WWII on a ...

I am proud of her for wanting to do that. Back then being an African American and a woman in the military, they looked down ...

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Joseph Dunnigan I went into watching Tyler Perry’s The Six Triple Eight with low hopes.  After growing up on Band of Brothers, The Pacific, and Saving Private Ryan, it was hard for me to imagine that ...

The battalion, nicknamed “The Six Triple Eight,” had a critical mission — to redistribute and sort around 17 million pieces of mail for the European Theater of Operations. Through historical ...

The city of Hickory is celebrating Black history by highlighting the work of one of the first and only all-Black unit in the women's Army Corps during World War II.

And if the battalion’s name sounds familiar, that might be because their exploits were highlighted in the recent Tyler Perry Netflix film called “The Six Triple Eight” starring Kerry Washington.

The first and only Woman Army Corps unit of color to deploy overseas during World War II are being hailed as "unsung heroes".