• 2 days ago
855 women joined the war to fix the three-year backlog of undelivered mail. Faced with discrimination and a country devastated by war, they managed to sort more than 17 million pieces of mail ahead of time.
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00:00Attention!
00:03Soldiers, I am Captain Charity Adams.
00:08Welcome to the Women's Army Corps.
00:11Delma, my wife and I have been talking about the problems we are having with the mail and our soldiers' morale.
00:20Mr. President, this assignment has proven to be a logistical nightmare.
00:24We've been tried in the Women's Army Corps.
00:28You mean, the White Women's Army Corps?
00:31Well, is there another?
00:39Adams, you and the 6888 Battalion are headed to Europe.
00:44I'm just hoping it's the Postal Battalion.
00:50They think the only thing we're good for is delivering some damn mail.
00:54Would you like to see all the hangars, ma'am?
00:56How many are there?
00:57All of them.
01:02Oh, my God.
01:05Ladies, we have been ordered to provide hope.
01:10The soldiers have not heard from their loved ones, and their loved ones have not heard from them.
01:16When there is no mail, there is low morale.
01:216888 Battalion!
01:23Forward, march!
01:31They did not send us because they thought we could do it.
01:35We are here because they are sure we cannot.
01:42We are no strangers to making a shack a home.
01:47We are at war, and when you are at war, you make do.
01:54We are at war, and when you are at war, you make do.
01:57Unlike some other folks here, we have the most to prove.
02:02Now is where you show the proof.
02:05This is our mission.
02:11And we will not fail.
02:13We are at war, and when you are at war, you make do.
02:16We are at war, and when you are at war, you make do.
02:23We are at war, and when you are at war, you make do.