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Article Excerpt
Brenda L. Moore. To Serve My Country, To Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African American WACs Stationed Overseas during World War II. New York: New York University Press, 1996. 272 pp. Photographs, tables and figures, appendices, bibliography, index. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8147-5522-4; $19.50 (paper), ISBN 0-81477-5587-9.
Even today many Americans remain ignorant of the fact that black women served overseas during World War II. A Postal Unit, the 6888th, was posted to Europe, where they served in Great Britain and later France when the burden of keeping track of thousands of soldiers (as they moved from area to area, were killed, rotated back to the States or otherwise moved around) became so overwhelming that an enormous backlog of all-important mail and packages built up to an unmanageable chaos. An estimated 855 women served in this unit, and Moore was able to list the names, ranks and serial numbers of 742 of them in Appendix A. Records are somewhat scanty, making reconstruction of the list difficult.
Moore looks at the Unit from several perspectives: who were these women, where did they come from, what were their living and social conditions...
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