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Only all-women, Black battalion in WWII gets congressional honor, including many from SC
Black, all-female unit known as the "Six Triple Eight" gets Congressional Gold Medal. Many had ties to SC, like Charity Adams ...
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All-Black women’s Army Corps unit led by Ohio woman in WWII to receive Congressional Gold Medal
WASHINGTON (Tribune News Service) — An all-female, all-Black women’s Army Corps battalion who cleared out a 17 million-piece ...
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A Black, all-female WWII unit got a congressional medal 80 years after making history
The only Women's Army Corps unit of color to serve overseas in World War II received a Congressional Gold Medal on Tuesday, ...
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Congress honors WWII’s All-Black, All-female battalion with Gold Medal
Col. Charity Adams Earley, the first African American woman commissioned in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps. Her son, Stanley Earley, says she would be proud. “She’d be really happy,” he ...
All-Black Women’s Army Corps unit led by Dayton woman in WW II to receive Congressional Gold Medal
WASHINGTON, D. C. - An all-female, all-Black Women’s Army Corps battalion who cleared out a 17 million-piece backlog of U.S.