Alan Turing wartime manuscript, Enigma machine up for auction 03:27. During World War II, dozens of women students at Cambridge University worked around the clock in complete secrecy to crack Nazi ...

The idea of using Army women to guard the nation’s coasts was born of necessity. Marshall, the American commander responsible for allocating Army resources during World War II, faced an acute ...

Women's Army Corps Cpl. Alyce Dixon, right, talks with her superior officer while serving with the 6888th Postal Battalion. The battalion was the first all-female, all-black battalion in World War II.

Michel Martin speaks with filmmaker Tyler Perry and actor Kerry Washington about their film based on World War II's only Women's Army Corps unit of color. In recent years, we've seen more and more ...

Army Maj. Charity Adams (center, front) inspects members of the 6888th battalion in formation in Birmingham, England, in 1945. The Women's Army Corps battalion made history as the only all-female ...

This Memorial Day, we’re remembering the legacy of the WWII era unit, the 6888 Central Postal Directory Battalion. It was the only predominantly Black, all-women’s U.S. military unit to serve ...

Kerry Washington Leads Women’s Army Corps Unit of Color in Tyler Perry’s ‘The Six Triple Eight’ WWII Film Teaser. The biopic on the first and only Women’s Army Corps unit of color to ...

The only black, all-female unit to serve in Europe during World War II, commonly known as the Six Triple Eight, will be presented Tuesday with the Congressional Gold Medal.