#The six triple eight

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The Six Triple Eight (2024) dir. Tyler Perry

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The Six Triple Eight Premieres TOMORROW!!

An army captain (Kerry Washington) leads her historic battalion of all-female soldiers as they face a mission unlike any other: to restore hope to WWII’s frontlines by delivering over 17 million backlogged letters.

Witness their courage and determination in The Six Triple Eight, December 20th only on Netflix!

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Okay I watched the Six Triple Eight movie and I've been sitting with it for the last couple of days just sorting my thoughts and reflecting on how I feel about it. So here are all of my thoughts. What I liked, loved, hated, disliked but begrudgingly accepted. All of it.

Overall I LOVED IT!! AAHHHH!!!! It was a great movie and the history was pretty damn on point and I'm still so thrilled to have this movie in existence!!!!!! WE HAVE A MOVIE ABOUT THE WACS!! ABOUT THE 6888!!! THAT THE PUBLIC IS WATCHING AND ENJOYING AND WANTING TO LEARN MORE!!!! THAT'S SO IMPORTANT TO ME!!! It was so amazing to see so many women on screen during a WWII/war movie. I cried many many times. I'm so happy you guys. So happy.

Were there mistakes? Absolutely. Did those mistakes piss me off? Of course. I always get pissed at historical mistakes and the WACs are my historical specialty. Heck I know the historical consultant personally. But I knew going in that this is a Tyler Perry movie on a Netflix budget so of course there were going to be mistakes and things that are embellished for entertainment purposes. I prepared myself for it. So yes, overall I'm very happy with the film.

But lets go deep into it shall we!

Putting in a read more because I am detailed and long winded lol

Let's start with what I feel like was the good.

First of all, and what I feel like is one of the MOST important things about this movie: We have a movie about WOMEN in WWII. About Women of COLOR in WWII. About the WOMEN'S ARMY CORPS itself. We have a movie where the WAC are at the forefront of a war movie instead of being blurry background images with no names faces or lines OR just nurses acting as a romantic plot device to lift a man's story before disappearing never to be heard from again. Now we have a full movie just about THEM. And I fucking love it!! I want MORE!!!! And this film is getting people interested in history and wanting to learn more about not only the WACs but the 6888 themselves which will lead to more interest in women's history and women's history during WWII which makes me so fucking happy I could SCREAM!!!!! That's so amazing and so important and if anyone wants some more resources to learn more hit me up! I'm happy to share things!

In terms of the plot/story I'm fairly pleased with it too. Knowing it's a lower budget Tyler Perry Netflix movie, I fully expected them to sensationalize, exaggerate and change a lot of the real history. And yes they did do this a few times but the meat of the story is accurate. A lot of the story was accurate. More accurate than I expected.

The processing of new WACs, the gas mask drill, the voyage over, the marching through the streets upon arrival in England, the state of the King Edward School, the process of sorting the mail, all of the extra steps they all took to locate the men, the church scene, the loss of several women, the scene of Adams saying "over my dead body", etc. were all TRUE. That happened!! And I loved how it was all shown. I really really do.

However, I don't like that they changed the reason Lena joined the WACs to go from fighting for her country to be a romantic/for a dude story. I'm so tired of amatanormativity jeezus christ. Why does everything have to have romance in it. I mean I get why they shoehorned that plot in there. It's for the public who expect and apparently need a romance plot or whatever. But yeah I didn't like that. Was it a good story? Sure I guess. If you don't know the truth and like romance plots. I mean, Lena and Hugh were already married when she decided to join the WACs.

I also don't like that they changed the story of the women who lost their lives. In fact this is the one plot point that infuriates me the most. The rest I could overlook and accept as film nonsense that was always gonna happen for dramatic effect. But this? What was the point. First of all it was 3 women who lost their lives. In a jeep accident. They were not blown up because they went off the prescribed course. They didn't even give them the names of the real women who died. Which were Dolores Browne, Mary Barlow, and Mary Barkston. The emotional impact was lovely and I may have cried a little watching it but that doesn't mean I'm not so mad that it was changed. At least that WAS included in the movie that women died. And the part about raising money for the caskets is true as well. Charity Adams wrote about it in her memoirs. They took up a collection to purchase caskets and sent 3 women who matched the deceased women's measurements to buy them. Then they gave them a Protestant (for 2 of them) and a Catholic (for 1 of them) ceremony. The 3 women are now buried in the Colleville-Sur-Mer Normandy American Cemetery. That was true. And I'm glad all of this was included because the regular movie watcher should know this happened even if the facts weren't quite right.

I loved the ending. A lot. I sobbed when they returned home and were saluted by the men who benefited from the work of the 6888th. I SOBBED when they started playing the real footage of the battalion and the interviews with the members. SOBBED. I was a fucking mess after that segment and I'm BEYOND glad that it was included. That was the most important part of the whole damn movie. This story is REAL and about REAL women and you should go learn about them!

I literally clapped and cheered during the marching segment. I'm such a nerd for proper WAC drill. That dress right dress and cover down was SO GOOD!! Anyone who's been at my mercy when trying to learn drill should know that it's not easy to do. But these ladies were SHARP and SNAPPY and BEAUTIFUL! Ugh I loved it! That's what I am my unit to look like one day! The marching itself was a little weird though. They were picking up their feet way too much. It's like they were stomping down the street when it should have been a smooth roll step. And some of the ladies didn't have the arm swing down either. But the eyes right and salute moment!?! Aaaaahhhh!!! I screamed!!! In a good way!!! That movement was so smooth!!! So good!! And it felt, emotionally, so good to watch this giant group of women march down the street. Ugh I loved that.

This one is unique to me but The Phantom!!! I may have waved at the Phantom like it's my friend lol. Shoutout to my friends who own that vehicle!! The Phantom is a star!! I've ridden in that vehicle many times!! And my other friends car is in the movie too!! So fun!!!

I like the montage of the work WACs did post graduation. That had the feeling of a WAC recruitment video and I enjoyed it a lot. That was cool AND ACCURATE!!!!!!!!

Kerry Washington and Milauna Jackson had great chemistry together and every time they were on screen together I was having a blast.

THE WAC BAND!! WAC BAND!! WAC MUSICIANS! THERE WERE WAC MUSICIANS!!! AAAAAAAHHHHHH!!! If you know me at all you know how OBSESSED with the WAC musicians I am. And the dance music for the movie was provided by the black WACs and I loved that. So. Much. Was it accurate to have a full WAC band stationed in England? Fuck no. Not at all. The 404th WAC band never left the US. Do I care? Not at all. I was too excited to see those women playing to care. Sorry not sorry.

Okay now the bad. Hoo boy.

Obviously what I've already stated above about the factual errors. The incorrect facts regarding Lena, the women who died, the made up General Halt (you couldn't pick an actual general to use? why did you make one up?), the conclusion of the inspection and the "over my dead body" situation, etc.

The uniforms. Oh my god the uniforms. What the hell happened!? Now I will say, IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE!!! So much worse!! We've seen worse!! At least they were all wearing correct uniform pieces. Every uniform they wore was correct. I saw correct service uniforms, correct HBTs, correct officer uniforms, mostly correct M43s (where the fuck were their leggings?!). So thank god for that. The problem is that the uniforms were so sloppy!! Throughout the movie I kept shaking my head over the sloppy uniforms. Hats that are not on people's head properly. Shirt collars that are popped or crooked. Ill fitting jackets. Garrison caps ok wrong. Crushed Hobby Hats. Leggings not worn or worn backwards. The purses on the WRONG shoulder!

Horrifying. But this stuff wasn't the most egregious error of the film! This is the WORST thing in it. The upside down officers cap badge on Milauna was the WORST. That is unforgivable. How does that even happen!?! How did no one see it and go "oh wait we gotta fix that?" Especially when Kerry Washington was in the same scene wearing the same uniform! How! Does! This! Happen!?! Utterly ridiculous.

I will say that I did chuckle for a bit because I kept thinking about my experience with the shit repro uniforms we have as reenactors and how I've dealt with a lot of the problems the movie had. I don't fit in original pieces so I have to rely on repros. I've dealt with my collars bunching weirdly, my hobby hat getting bent/crushed and not getting back into shape properly. I laughed out loud at the whole "my titties won't fit in my shirt" moment because SAME GIRL!! Big breasted girls know that pain. They make my shirt look so weird sometimes. Did I like the way it was said? Fuck no. I hated Johnnie's character so much. Why did she phrase it like that. Felt way too modern. Even if I could relate to trying to fit my big boobs into my wool shirt. And when I first started reenacting I definitely wore insignia wrong once or twice and once I put my garrison cap on backwards and didn't realize it and no one told me it was backwards so whoops. So I can accept some of the sloppiness because I've been there.

But just because I can relate to this all doesn't make it acceptable for a film! This is not something that should have shitty looking uniforms like this!! You have the time and the money and the resources!! The uniforms should fit and be worn CORRECTLY!! There is no excuse for the mistakes made. None. Not when you have all the references and access to veterans of the 6888 and a freaking historical advisor that I KNOW would have told you THIS IS WRONG! And so much of it is so easily fixable! Pull that hat down so it's on your head. Roll the hair up more. Curl her hair. Twist the insignia so it's the other way. Get her a bigger jacket and her a smaller one. EASY TO FIX.

I like a lot of the hair but the ones that were wrong were SO wrong it was PAINFUL! Johnnie's straight hair made me scream. It looked horrible all the time. Why did so many of them have their hair down below their collars at the dance!?!!!!! WHY!?!?! Sure it's pretty, but IT'S BELOW YOUR COLLAR!!!! STOP!!! Why was that one white WAC in a BUN!?! Why!!!??

And the salutes!!! HORRIBLE!! Salutes aren't that hard!! Why did they all either salute like a Brit with the palm facing front or with the most crooked hand ever.

Also plot wise, what was the point of introducing us to the supporting characters of all they were going to do was be a prop for Lena. We should have been given more about them. They needed more plots, more story, more characterization, more depth. I wanted more from them.

Overall I really really enjoyed the movie and the things that I disliked are not enough for me to say this was a bad movie. It wasn't. I do highly encourage everyone who watched the movie to check out some of the following resources to learn more about these incredible women:

One Woman's Army by Charity Adams Earley

Women of the 6888th website

The United States Army in World War II: Special Studies: The Women’s Army Corps by Mattie E. Treadwell

LTC Charity Adams, Oral History, 1990

Anna Mae Robertson, The “Six Triple Eight” A interview with PFC Anna Mae Wilson and her daughter Janice Banyard on the history of the 6888th

This page of the Women of 6888th website

To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race by Brenda L. Moore

“African American Women and the Women’s Army Corps during World War II.” by Morgan Carlton

Oral Histories of African American women during wwii

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Kerry Washington at "The Six Triple Eight" Los Angeles Premiere in PRADA

[meret118]

Netflix’s ‘The Six Triple Eight,’ a New Tyler Perry Film About the Women of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion

The Black, female unit sorted through a massive backlog of undelivered mail, raising American soldiers’ morale during World War II

Romay Johnson Davis

When I interviewed Davis in November 2022, she was the oldest surviving member of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the first battalion of African American women to ever serve in the U.S. military overseas. (Davis died on June 21, 2024, at 104.) She described working long shifts in rat-infested warehouses in England and France and chauffeuring military personnel around Europe during the deadliest conflict in human history. But when she looked back at the U-boat incident, her voice brimmed with amusement and pride.

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The Six Triple Eight was a wonderful movie and i believe everyone should take the time and watch it! I’m not biggest Tyler Perry fan but i will give him his props becuase this was wonderfully directly while also being extremely informative on what it was like to be in the army as a black women back in the day.

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Emmy winner Kerry Washington is renowned for her powerful portrayals of real-life figures. From her roles in the Academy Award-winning film Ray and The Last King of Scotland to her iconic portrayal of Olivia Pope in the hit TV series Scandal, Washington has consistently brought depth and nuance to these complex characters. Now, she takes on another true story, embodying Major Charity Adams in Tyler Perry's latest film, The Six Triple Eight.

This compelling war drama follows the journey of 855 Black women who enlisted to tackle a daunting task: resolving a three-year backlog of undelivered mail. Facing discrimination and the harsh realities of war-torn Europe, these remarkable women defied expectations, sorting over 17 million pieces of mail ahead of schedule.

For Washington, honoring Adams' legacy was paramount. She immersed herself in extensive research, determined to capture the essence of this pioneering woman.

The Six Triple Eight is now streaming on Netflix.

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The Six Triple Eight | First Look | Netflix

An Army Captain (Kerry Washington) and her historic battalion (the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion) of female soldiers defy the odds to deliver hope to the front lines during WWII.

Watch The Six Triple Eight, only on Netflix, December 20.

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Celebrating International Women's Day, 2025

International Women's Day has come back round, so once again I'm celebrating some more of the women I've been admiring of late, as well as some more of those I've been a fan of for a good while already. Here's to some more incredible women!

DOLLY PARTON. First up needs NO introduction, she's an absolute bloody ICON and one of the hardest working famous women in the world! Not to menton one of the sweetest and most adorably self-deprecating.

THE SIX TRIPLE EIGHT. AKA the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, this incredible 855-strong all-black battalion of the US Women's Army Corps revolutionaised the hopelessly crippled army postal system during World War II, battling racial prejudice and institutonalised misogyny to help win the War through restoring flagging morale from American forces who hadn't heard from their families in YEARS ...

IDINA MENZEL & KRISTIN CHENOWETH. Yeah, they're both best known for originating the roles of Elphaba, the "Wicked" Witch of the West, and Galinda, the "Good" Witch of the East, in the stage musical of Wicked, the reinvention of The Wizard of Oz, but these two incredible actresses have both played some other pretty iconic roles over the years, both on stage and on big and small screens. Menzel, of course, is also rightly beloved as the voice of Elsa in the Frozen movies, while I first came across Chenoweth through her truly adorable role as Annabeth Schott in The West Wing.

MARJANE SATRAPI, the incredibly talented French-Iranian graphic novelist, writer-director and children's author. Most people (rightly) know her best through her breakthrough work Persepolis, an autobiographical account of her experiences growing up as a young woman in Iran after the Islamic Revolution (which she subsequently turned into a FUCKING AMAZING animated feature), but she's also responsible for one of the weirdest and most wonderfully baffling Ryan Reynolds film's I've ever seen, The Voices ...

AVA DUVERNAY, the rightly critically acclaimed writer-director of incredibly important films like Selma, Origin and the documentary feature 13th. Okay, so she also made the decidedly meh adaptation of A Wrinkle In Time, but we can't have everything ...

CHAPPELL ROAN. Hot damn, what an incredible few years this incredible former up-and-coming, now very much BREAKOUT young musical STAR has had. The massive success of her debut album The Rise & Fall of a Midwest Princess, followed by her runaway MEGAHIT single Good Luck Babe have really put this genuine LGBT+ ICON on the map in a MAJOR WAY, and I foresee great things in her future.

ELLEN MacARTHUR, the powerfully inspiring English yachtswoman who won the hearts of entire nations when she broke the World Speed Record for circumnavigating the globe when she sailed solo around the world at just 29 years old.

BECKETT MARINER & D'VANA TENDI, voiced by Tawny Newsome and Noël Wells in Paramount's best "new" Star Trek series Lower Decks. Gods, I love these two. They're among my absolute favourit Trek characters, like, EVER, and they're both such wonderfully positive role models for nerdy girls of all kinds the world over.

NICHELLE NICHOLS. Speaking of Trek, how can we forget the women who not only started it all, but also went so far in making a black women appearing on screen in a STARRING ROLE where she's regarded as an EQUAL not only to men but WHITE MEN something that could actually be SO NORMAL. Okay, so there was a still a long road ahead (one wh haven't REALLY seen the end of quite yet), but she really made one hell of a start. Rest in Power, queen. You're sorely missed ...

RHEA RIPLEY, essentially THE most well known and most incredibly iconic female wrestler of the WWE, if not the entire SPORT. I simply ADORE her take-no-shit attitude, her truly BADASS none-more-GOTH sense of style and her seriously intimidating but also absolutely BEAUTIFUL muscles. She's amazing.

SALT-N-PEPA. Cheryl James (Salt), Sandra Denton (Pepa) and Deidra Roper (DJ Spinderella) are, quite simply, THE MOST IMPORTANT female hip hop group of all time. Their runaway hit Push It is simply the pinnacle of their massive platinum selling, era defining musical career.

CASSANDRA PETERSON, better known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the actress, comedian and bona fide horror icon who pretty much DEFINED the 80s. That being said, she's STILL going strong, and she's just as awesome now as she ever was ...

VIVIENNE MEDRANO aka VIVZIEPOP, the YouTuber, animator, writer-director, producer AND voice actress responsible for creating not one but TWO of my current favourite animated shows, Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss. Not only is she an incredibly talented creative person, but she's also a total sweeheart, and a true LGBT+ ICON.

... and last, but by no means least ... TINA TURNER, quite simply one of the most important and amazing singer-songwriters of all time. Even more famous for the hardships she endured and the incredible comeback she achieved than her awesome music, she became a powerful inspiration for survivors of spousal and domestic abuse the world over. She was, quite simply, The Best.

[musingsofahistorymajor]

The Six Triple Eight (2024)

"Every officer joined in to make this parade a success, giving 200 percent of what I would have asked of them. I heard, after it was all over, that there had been some complaints that I had not allowed the women to get settled before I had them into some outside activity. But, after all, we were preparing a performance for our top commander - all the channels in between had to step aside for this one. And we did it. the parade was a tremendous success."

One Woman's Army by Charity Adams Earley

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[meret118]

THE SIX TRIPLE EIGHT is inspired by the first and only Women’s Army Corps unit of color to serve overseas in WWII. Despite facing racism and sexism – and grueling working conditions – they were committed to serving their country with honor and distinction. Given an extraordinary mission and united in their determination, these unsung heroes delivered hope and shattered barriers. Written and directed by Tyler Perry, the film stars Kerry Washington as Major Charity Adams, the commanding officer of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion. Produced by Tyler Perry, Nicole Avant, Angi Bones, Tony L. Strickland, Keri Selig and Carlota Espinosa, the film features an ensemble cast including Ebony Obsidian, Milauna Jackson, Kylie Jefferson, Shanice Shantay, Sarah Jeffery, Pepi Sonuga, Moriah Brown, Jeanté Godlock, Susan Sarandon, with Dean Norris, and Sam Waterston, and Oprah Winfrey. Based on the article by Kevin M. Hymel, the film features an original song “The Journey” written by Diane Warren and performed by H.E.R., with choreography by Debbie Allen.

[backtonormallife]

A lot of y’all don’t like Tyler Perry or Oprah (short scene), but the Six Triple Eight is a well done movie. It’s well worth the two hours. It’s on Netflix.

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Kerry Washington attends the Hollywood Reporter's annual Women in Entertainment Gala wearing BRANDON MAXWELL