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'My moment of liberation': Holocaust survivor reflects on 80 years since freeing of Dachau
Elly Gotz, who grew up in Lithuania, was one of those prisoners. In 1941, Gotz was 13. He remembers the German Army arriving ...
The Six Triple Eight: Black, Female Soldiers Honored for World War II Success
The women were sent to Europe to clear a backlog of 17 million pieces of mail waiting to be sent to U.S. troops.
Congress honors all-Black female battalion crucial to World War II efforts
The battalion was tasked with cleaning out the massive backlog filled with more than 17 million pieces of mail that left troops without any communications from their families for months.
Only Black female WWII unit receives Congressional Gold Medal
The only Black, all-female unit serving in Europe during World War II received the Congressional Gold Medal on Tuesday at the ...
Congress honors Six Triple Eight, the Black, all-female WWII unit
The nation’s only Black, all-female unit to serve in Europe during World War II was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal on ...
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The only female unit to serve overseas in WWII gets a congressional medal 80 years on
The Six Triple Eight sorted millions of pieces of wartime mail in a matter of months but weren't recognized publicly for ...