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Kerry Washington, Tyler Perry's 'Six Triple Eight' movie tells true story of Black women in WWII

Overlooked no more.

The true story of the 855 Black women in the Women's Army Corps during World War II – the only all-Black Women's Army Corps unit overseas during the war – is getting the due it deserves in "The Six Triple Eight."

Kerry Washington and filmmaker Tyler Perry rejoin forces for the film (streaming Friday on Netflix) to shine a light on the unsung American heroes.

Maj. Charity Adams (played by Washington) and the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion were tasked with the gargantuan "morale" mission of sorting through a three-year backlog of undelivered mail, routing 17 million pieces to and from soldiers and their families.

Though Adams was a stoic leader of her soldiers, "the women of the 6888th really loved her. They admired her," says Washington, 47, who worked with Perry on 2010's "For Colored Girls."

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