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Women's Army Corp of 1942
Attribution: This video is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. It is attributed to Army National Guard, and the original version can be found here. The Women’s Army Corps (WAC ...
Bush Center event to honor women’s US Army battalion that delivered mail in WWII
The Bush Center will honor the legacy of the Six Triple Eight battalion on Feb. 12. A Netflix film about the unit was ...
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Having Women in Combat Is Still Controversial—But Shouldn’t Be
The Combat Medical Badge (CMB) is one of the least known but most revered of Army awards. Established in 1945 by the War Department, it was a companion to the Combat Infantryman Badge that recognized ...
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African-American WACs: they changed segregationist military policy
Moore, UB assistant professor of sociology, tells the story of African-American women in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) by drawing on the experiences of members of a postal directory battalion. It is ...
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Tyler Perry honors a WWII Black women’s battalion in ‘The Six Triple Eight’
The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion of the Women's Army Corps was the only Black WAC unit sent overseas to Europe, where they unplugged a three-year bottleneck of mail from GIs to the ...
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A cultural center in Leavenworth started researching the 'Six Triple Eight' long before the movie came out
The first and only Woman Army Corps unit of color to deploy overseas during World War II are being hailed as "unsung heroes".