WASHINGTON — The only all-Black, all-female battalion to serve in World War II in the U.S. and in Europe is set to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal after President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan bill on Monday.
The bill, which was co-sponsored by the entire New Hampshire delegation, seeks to honor the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, known as the"Six Triple Eight" -- a group of Black women who raised the morale of millions by sorting and routing mail for American service members and civilians in Europe and the United States."We helped each other. We worked with each other," retired Maj.
Partridge-Brown told ABC News last month that she only became aware that her mother was a part of the battalion after a Google search 20 years after her mother's death.The battalion, which was created in 1944, eventually included 824 enlisted Black women and 31 officers from the Women's Army Corps, the Army Service Forces and the Army Air Forces.
"Servicemembers noticed that they weren't getting mail from home, and Army officials reported that the lack of reliable mail delivery was hurting morale," per the U.S. Army Center of Military History, with a general predicting that it would take six months to process a backlog of mail, including Christmas packages.
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