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All-female, mostly Black WWII unit receives Congressional Gold Medal
Family members of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion accepted a Congressional Gold Medal on Tuesday and 80 years ...
The Six Triple Eight: Black, Female Soldiers Honored for World War II Success
The women were sent to Europe to clear a backlog of 17 million pieces of mail waiting to be sent to U.S. troops.
Congress honors all-Black female battalion crucial to World War II efforts
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.
Congress honors Six Triple Eight, the Black, all-female WWII unit
The nation’s only Black, all-female unit to serve in Europe during World War II was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal on ...
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The only female unit to serve overseas in WWII gets a congressional medal 80 years on
The Six Triple Eight sorted millions of pieces of wartime mail in a matter of months but weren't recognized publicly for ...
On a sunken WWII aircraft carrier, experts find a mural, wrecked planes and a station wagon
Three miles down, cameras glimpsed the shattered interior of the USS Yorktown, sunk in the Pacific Ocean in the 1942 Battle ...