Six Triple Eight tells the story of World War II’s only Women’s Army Corps unit of colour
IN a plane halfway across the Atlantic heading for Britain, Major Charity Adams nervously opened the letter she had held on to throughout the flight.The Six Triple Eight tells the remarkable stories of how Major Adams and her battalion of black women soldiers delivered a staggering 17million lettersThe envelope contained top-secret orders for a near-impossible mission to boost morale on the front line in the battle to defeat Hitler.
Some were addressed to just nicknames while many soldiers had been killed in combat and had died without getting the heart-warming news from home.The 6888th Battalion was the first and only all-female black battalion to be deployed overseas during World War Two., Major Adams said: “The longer the 6888 were on the job, the more we appreciated the value of our work. How mail would make the loneliness, the fear, the lack of friends all easier to bear.
The racism Major Adams and her soldiers faced in Britain was not from English people, but by white American troops and their officers. “There were some problems in the UK, but mainly from the American soldiers who brought their issues from back home. The women of the 6888th were invited into white people’s houses, which would have been unthinkable back home.
But in 2019, Woody Johnson, the US Ambassador to the UK, presented a blue plaque to King Edward’s School to commemorate the unit’s achievements in Birmingham.The story inspired actor Tyler Perry to write and direct the film and his first choice to play Major Charity Adams was Kerry Washington. “In Officer Candidate School there were four classes: one for black men; one for white men; one for white women; and one for black women.7
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