The all-Black female WWII unit, the “Six Triple Eight,” was honored with the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest award that Congress can bestow upon a civilian.
On Tuesday, the 6888th unit, which is known as the “Six Triple Eight,” was awarded the medal for the work they did during World War II to “increase the morale of all United States personnel stationed in the European Theater of Operations during World War II,” by helping deliver millions of pieces of backlogged mail, according to the U.S. House of Representative’s History Art and Archives.
A common issue with delivering mail to those stationed in Europe during the war was that a lot of people had the same name, according to House Speaker Mike Johnson , R-Louisiana. But the 6888th created a system of 7 million ID cards to help mitigate the issue.
“They didn’t have the high-tech gadgets we do today,” said Johnson. “They had to do it manually.”…