Today, we look back at a historic unit: The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion.
The 6888th also known as the “Six-Triple Eight" was the first and only all-Black Female Women Army Corps unit to be deployed overseas during #WWII.
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“No Mail, Low Morale.”
The 6888th were assigned to Birmingham England, Rouen, France, and Paris, France during #WorldWarII.
Their mission was to clear several years of backlogged mail in the European Theater of Operations.
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The women of the 6888th worked with male and female French civilians and with German POWs.
They encountered a backlog of undelivered mail dating back as far as two to three years which again would take an estimated six months to process.
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With the new tracking system they created, the 6888th processed an average of 65k pieces of mail per shift and cleared the six-month backlog of mail in three months.
They achieved unprecedented success and efficiency in solving the military’s postal problems.
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In 1996, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Postal Museum in Washington, DC, held a program honoring Charity Adams Earley as commander of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion.
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Learn more at go.usa.gov/xf228
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