Occasionally, a Nazi V-1 buzz bomb or V-2 rocket exploded nearby, shaking the buildings. They worked endless hours in difficult surroundings -unheated, rat-infested warehouses with the windows blacked out. The women arrived in England in February 1945, crossing the U-boat infested waters of the Atlantic, and began their task just days later. Adopting the motto “No Mail, Low Morale,” the 850 female officers and enlisted personnel of the 6888th waded into the backlog of 17 million pieces of mail-letters from home, parcels, and card-that lifted the spirits of countless GIs engaged in the great conflict. Based on Hymel’s exhaustively researched work, the film will recount the struggles of these women in uniform as they faced discrimination, separation from their families overseas during wartime, and the daunting task of sorting and distributing a three-year-old mountain of undelivered mail to service personnel in the European Theater of Operations. Army’s only all-Black, all-female unit to serve overseas during World War II. Six Triple Eight relates the experiences of the U.S. And star power is contributing strongly to the anticipated Netflix release to viewers with Oprah Winfrey, Kerry Washington, Sam Waterston, and Susan Sarandon committing to key roles. Perry, whose partnership with Netflix has been quite successful in recent years, is putting together Six Triple Eight, a feature film that is already in production. And when he read Kevin Hymel’s dramatic narrative of the 6888th Central Postal Battalion in the pages of WWII History magazine, he knew it was something special. Actor and filmmaker Tyler Perry knows a great story when he comes across one.
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