Lives and Legacies

The Real History of the Six Triple Eight

The 6888th's Central Directory Postal Battalion was the only unit of mostly-Black American women to be sent overseas during the Second World War. Led by Major Charity Adams, the 'Six Triple Eight' deployed to Birmingham in early 1945, where they undertook the mammoth task of sorting millions of letters for delivery to U.S. soldiers in the European Theatre.

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