Black Female Unit Seeking Congressional Gold Medal-- Part 4: Minority Units Not Recognized or Appreciated

They cleared out a backlog of about 17 million pieces of mail in three months -- twice as fast as projected.  The battalion would go on to serve in France before returning home.  And, like so many black units during he war, their exploits never got the attention afforded their white counterparts.

"It is sad to say.  They came back to Jim Crow America," Colonel Edna Cummings said.  "Not only the 6888th, but a lot of our minority soldiers who returned home from the war were not recognized or appreciated until years later.  The Tuskegee Airmen, Montford Point Marines. There are so many stories of units of color who were not recognized until  decades after the war.

--GreGen