The Six Triple Eight Documentary Airs Feb. 11 Thursday, January 21, 2021
The Six Triple Eight Documentary Airs Feb. 11. The award-winning documentary highlights the only all-African American WAC unit to deploy overseas during World War II.
In February 1945, over 800 of America’s highly skilled and educated women, many from the Southeast, shipped out to Europe for the opportunity of a lifetime. The United States Army’s 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was the only all African American Women’s Army Corps unit to serve overseas during World War II. Their story began right outside of Chattanooga, at the Third Women’s Army Corps Training Center at Fort Oglethorpe.