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Assembly committee approves resolution to designate May 18 as "6 Triple 8 Day" honoring African American WWII postal battalion
Summary
The committee released an Assembly committee substitute of AJR211 to designate May 18 of each year as "6 Triple 8 Day" in New Jersey, honoring the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion and recognizing the service of African American women postal battalion members.
The Assembly Military and Veterans Affairs Committee voted to release an Assembly committee substitute for AJR211, a joint resolution designating May 18 of each year as "6 Triple 8 Day" in New Jersey to honor the service of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, commonly referred to in testimony as the "6 Triple 8."
Testimony described the battalion's work in 1945 to clear a massive backlog of mail for U.S. service members in the European theater. Dr. Karen T. Jordan, a historian…
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