6888th Postal Battalion Delivered High Spirits to Weary WWII Troops

The movie about the 6888 started streaming on Netflix last night.
Upon arrival, the Six Triple Eight found warehouses filled with a backlog of about 18 million packages and pieces of mail. The buildings lacked sufficient heating and lighting. At this time, there were around 7 million American servicemen and civilian workers in the European theater, and they had become frustrated with not receiving their mail.

With a deadline of six months, the women of the 6888th readied for a massive operation. Splitting into three shifts, they worked 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They created their own organization system, including an index system with more than 7 million individual cards to sort similar names by military serial number. More than 65,000 pieces of mail were handled each shift.