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The “Six Triple Eight” was sent to England in 1945 to clear a monstrous backlog of undelivered mail for American service members: some 17 million individual pieces of mail. One of the unit's last surviving members has died. https://t.co/jgthWDEAWn

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Anna Mae Robertson, Member of WWII’s ‘Six Triple Eight’ Unit, Dies at 101

The unit of 855 Black women was celebrated for clearing a massive backlog of undelivered mail for American service members.