WAC aircraft mechanic PVT Dorothy Bumstead of Beaumont, Texas, looks out from the access port on the bottom of a B-17 bomber at Tyndall Field in Florida.
Our first teaser for the Six Triple Eight movie was included in Netflix's 2024 upcoming releases promo!!
For those who don't know, the Six Triple Eight is about the 6888th Central Postal Battalion which was the all POC regiment of the Women's Army Corps during World War II. They served in England sorting through the massive backlog of mail that had accumulated. Receiving mail from home was such an important morale boost for the men and high morale wins wars so sorting this mail was a priority. It was a nearly impossible task that the Army predicted would take them years to accomplish but they completed the task in half the time, processing 17 million pieces of mail and sending them to soldiers awaiting news from home. They worked in cold, dirty, dark rat infested aircraft hangars with broken windows. They were so good at their work that the unit was sent to several other areas to do the same thing. The unit was active from 1945 to 1946 and consisted of 855 women under the Command of Major Charity Adams, Captains Mary F. Kearney and Bernice G. Henderson. Their nickname was “Six-Triple Eight" and their motto was “No Mail, Low Morale."
I'm so excited for this film, you have no idea. An entire movie completely focused on telling the story of women. And not just women, black women! It's so exciting! And it looks fantastic just from this short teaser. I know the historical consultant of the show personally and she knows WAC history better than anyone and it definitely shows. The uniforms are pretty perfect. The only mistake I've seen so far, which is in a behind the scenes photo, is the utility bag (their purse) is on the wrong side. But that's a nit picky complaint from me I can overlook. But even the shots are so good!! They're recreating at least one original image I can think of. Which is so cool. God I'm so excited!!!!
Did you meet the new girl? Yeah the one from France who showed up during winter break for some reason. Yeah the one who didn't bring clothes but brought a picture of her friends. Yeah she took like ten minutes to take my picture, I had to ask her what she was doing. Yeah, she kept shooting the puck into her own goal in air hockey. Yeah apparently she climbed a tree after a squirrel in the middle of the night --
1- Still Life with a Curtain by Paul Cézanne, ca. 1898
2- Mother and Child in a Boat by Edmund c. Tarbell, 1892
3- Recollection of Monrtefontaine by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
4- Seashore with Fishermen by Thomas Gainsborough, 1781/82
5- View of the Piazzetta San Marco towards the San Giorgio Maggiore by Francesco Guardi
6- Still Life by William Michael Harnett, 19th c.
7- Still-Life by Jan Davidsz. de Heem, 17th c.
8- The Travelling Companions by Augustus Leopold Egg, 1862
9- Landscape with Waterfall by Jacob van Ruisdael, 1660s
10- Peace and Plenty by George Inness, 1865
11- The Small Meadows in Spring by Alfred Sisley, 1880
12- Fruit by Harriet Cany Peale, c. 1860
cézanne my beloved <3 HeR should always include more cézanne.