United States. Army. Women's Army Corps. Central Postal Battalion, 6888th

Six Triple Eight
United States. Army. Women's Army Corps. Central Post Battalion, 6888th
United States. Army. Women's Army Corps. Central Postal Directory Battalion, 6888th
United States. Army. Women's Army Corps. Postal Battalion, 6888th

found: Library of Congress Manuscript Division for The Papers of Charity Adams Earley, 1928-2002(6888th Central Post Battalion)

found: LC data base, Sept. 16, 2004(note: 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion)

found: Electronic New Jersey on WWW, Sept. 16, 2004(in Feb. 1945, a battalion of Black WACs received its long awaited overseas assignment; organized as the 6888th Central Postal Battalion and commanded by Maj. (later Lt. Col.) Charity Adams, these 800 women were stationed in Birmingham, England for three months, moved to Rouen, France, and finally settled in Paris; the 6888th was responsible for the redirection of mail to all U.S. personnel in the European Theater of Operations (including Army, Navy, Marine Corps, civilians, and Red Cross workers); when mail could not be delivered to the address on the face of the envelope, it was sent to the Postal Directory to be redirected)

found: Grunts.net, home of U.S. military history on WWW, Sept. 16, 2004(6888th Postal Battalion; by 1945, a shortage of manpower had allowed mail to U.S. servicemen to accumulate in British warehouses for months and delayed its delivery to the frontlines; to alleviate the backup of undelivered mail, Army leaders turned to the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion under the command of Lt. Col. Charity Adams; the battalion was the only unit of African-Americans in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) to serve overseas; with a strength of 855 (824 enlisted women and 31 officers), the 6888th was composed of African-American women from a variety of military occupations who previously had been assigned to Army and Army Air Forces installations throughout the United States; most of the African-American WACs of the 6888th were postal clerks)

found: Wikipedia, viewed Jan. 24, 2022:6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion page (The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, nicknamed the "Six Triple Eight", was an all-black battalion of the Women's Army Corps. It was the only all-black, all-female battalion overseas during World War II)