GBN Daily Drop for January 27, 2022: 6888 Postal Directory Battalion (Black Landmarks)

“No mail, no morale” was the motto of the 6888 Central Postal Directory Battalion, the United States Army’s only all-African American and all-female unit during World War II. In 2018 the battalion’s contributions were recognized with a monument erected in their honor at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas.

More history of the 6888 can be found in the 1989 memoir One Woman’s Army: A Black Officer Remembers the WAC by former unit commander Charity Adams Earley, in Dr. Brenda L. Moore’s 1996 book To Serve My Country, To Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African American WACS Stationed Overseas During World War II, and at the US Army website history.army.mil, by searching Six Triple Eight.