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During WW2 855 Black women were sent to Europe to deliver mail and help boost morale of the US soldiers fighting in the frontline.

The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, nicknamed the "Six Triple Eight", was an all-Black and women of colour battalion of the US Women's Army Corp (WAC), led by Lt. Col. Charity Edna Adams.

They were tasked with sorting through and delivering an estimated backlog of 17 million pieces of mail. They were given six months to complete the task, which they did in three months. Their battle cry, "No mail, low morale".

Their story has remained largely untold but American playwright, actor and director Tyler Perry aims to redress the balance in his latest Netflix film Six Triple Eight.

He tells the 麻豆约拍's Niki Bedi: "Part of the reason that not a lot of people knew was the women themselves. A lot of them didn't even talk about it because there was this stigma about women being in the military... the stigma was that they were only sent into battle to be concubines for Black soldiers, because white soldiers were upset that Black male soldiers were dating European women, so that's why a lot of them didn't talk about it".

(Photo: Members of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion take part in a parade ceremony in honour of Joan d'Arc at the marketplace where she was burned at the stake, 1945. Credit: Smith Collection/Getty Images)

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