The Six Triple Eight

I just watched “The Six Triple Eight” today on Netflix.

Written and directed by Tyler Perry and starring Kerry Washington, Susan Sarandon, Sam Waterson and Oprah Winfrey it is about the true story of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, an all-Black and all-Female Battalion in the US Military in World War II.

The 855 Women in the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion went to the United Kingdom in February 1945 before going to France in May 1945.

They created a system that sorted and delivered 17 million pieces of mail to and from the US and the American Soldiers fighting at the Frontlines.

I first learned about the 6888^th when I was a Teenager living in Germany – from an AFN “Commercial.”