The Six Triple Eight
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THE SIX TRIPLE EIGHT, Tyler Perry’s war drama, is about the only U.S. Black Women’s Auxiliary Battalion to serve on foreign soil during World War II. Lena Derriecott is a grieving young black woman who loses her young Jewish boyfriend in the war. After high school, Lena decides to join the 6888th Battalion to fight Hitler. The black women are assigned the insurmountable task to sort 17 million pieces of backlog lost mail to and from soldiers on the front lines, to increase morale. The women face deplorable living conditions, racism and sexism.
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