The all-Black 6888th battalion of the Women's Army Corps took on a massive backlog of mail in the European front in World War II.
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All-Black women's World War II unit to be awarded Congressional Gold Medal
An all-Black Women's Army Corps unit that sorted millions of pieces of mail in unheated warehouses during World War II will finally be awarded a Congressional Gold Medal decades after the fact.
