Netflix’s next war movie comes out in two months and tells the story of an amazing but true chapter of World War II that most people are unaware of.
The Six Triple Eight sheds light on one of the most unusual American battalions of World War II in December, directed by Tyler Perry. You can already get an impression of the war film from the teaser trailer.
In Netflix’ war film The Six Triple Eight, female postmen are to secure victory
The Six Triple Eight sheds light on the previously little-known American contribution to World War II: the 6888th Battalion, which also gives the film its name. This branch of the Women’s Army Corps was almost entirely composed of black female soldiers. Their task in 1945 was to sort through more than 17 million letters and then deliver them to the fighters.
The 855 women were to use this action, in line with the motto “No mail, low morale”, to give new courage to the soldiers who were deployed on the European mainland. Some mail sent by relatives in the US had been stored in British warehouses near Birmingham for more than three years without being delivered.
Watch the teaser trailer for Netflix’s unusual war movie here
The protagonist in The Six Triple Eight is played by Kerry Washington (Scandal). She takes on the role of the real Major Charity Adams (1918-2002). As commanding officer of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, Adams was the highest-ranking African American woman to serve in the U.S. ranks overseas during World War II.
Netflix’s war film is based on an article by author Kevin M. Hymel that appeared in the 2019 issue of WWII History magazine. Incidentally, the chapter of American history depicted in The Six Triple Eight was also unknown in the United States for a long time. It was only 75 years after the women’s deployment, when President Joe Biden awarded the battalion the Medal of Congress in March 2022 (and only six of the 855 women were still alive), that it received more attention.
