The women were sent to Europe to clear a backlog of 17 million pieces of mail waiting to be sent to U.S. troops.

The Six Triple Eight cleared a years-long backlog of mail in just three months. Eighty years later, the unit is finally getting the recognition it deserves ...

The battalion was tasked with cleaning out the massive backlog filled with more than 17 million pieces of mail that left troops without any communications from their families for months.

The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was the only one comprised of Black women to be sent overseas during World War ...

The nation’s only Black, all-female unit to serve in Europe during World War II was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal on ...

Just over 80 years ago, American troops entered this Venetian city and defeated a ragged but determined German force to ...

One of the best-known images of the Vietnam War shows something other than what almost everyone thinks it does.

The Six Triple Eight sorted millions of pieces of wartime mail in a matter of months but weren't recognized publicly for ...

For three weeks in April 2025, my “Theology of Christian Martyrdom” class studied how a group of German students and ...

The U.S. Air Force unit and its deadly missions in World War II are also the subject of a new Apple TV+ documentary.

Two Marines from Massachusetts — among the last remaining soldiers in Saigon — recall the tense evacuation effort and how the city fell to communist forces in late April 1975.

Eighty years to the day after the liberation of Dachau Concentration Camp, a memorial plaque was unveiled in honor of the ...