The women were sent to Europe to clear a backlog of 17 million pieces of mail waiting to be sent to U.S. troops.

The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was the only one comprised of Black women to be sent overseas during World War ...

Exactly 80 years ago, on April 30, 1945, Darby and Sgt. Maj. John “Tim” Evans, were killed. On that same day in WWII, a DUKW ...

Just over 80 years ago, American troops entered this Venetian city and defeated a ragged but determined German force to ...

Col. William O. Darby, a native of Fort Smith, Arkansas, graduated from West Point in 1933 and quickly emerged as ...

The nation’s only Black, all-female unit to serve in Europe during World War II was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal on ...

Three airmen who died during a World War II bombing raid have been accounted for, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says troops sent to help Russia ‘annihilate’ Ukrainian forces under military pact with Moscow. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits the Kim Il Sung University ...

The Six Triple Eight sorted millions of pieces of wartime mail in a matter of months but weren't recognized publicly for ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The only Black, all-female unit to serve in Europe during World War II, commonly known as the “Six Triple ...

In the fall of 1945, a Dutch teenager named Frieda van Schaik wrote a letter to the US military seeking the ... and a Forever Promise Forged in World War II” is a testament to the people ...