The troops helped resolve a severe mail crisis by ensuring that American troops got their packages and letters from home.
They processed over one hundred and ninety-five mail parcels per day– providing the successful delivery of over seventeen million letters and packages by the end of their tour.
Colonel Eries Mentzer, the 42nd Air Base Wing commander and first Black woman to command the Maxwell Air Force Base, specifically requested to host Romay’s medical recognition ceremony and commended her contributions to the military and civil rights.
“The service of the 6888th demonstrated the talent and worth of minority and female Americans in service to our country abroad and paved the way for greater equal opportunity and civil rights in American communities,” Mentzer began.
“I humbly follow an exceptional legacy of Ms. Davis and the 6888th. They paved more ‘Freedom to Serve,’ and I am incredibly honored, grateful, and frankly here because of their service,” she continued.
The ceremony was aptly held on the seventy-fourth anniversary of Executive Order 9981– which banned segregation in the Armed Forces.
Afterward, state and local officials also commended Romay for her service– including Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed, who signaled for her legacy to inform current reforms.
“May the honorable service of Private Romay Davis in a segregated unit that resulted in more liberties for all Americans inspire all of us to do our part to remove civil rights barriers and truly live up to our nation’s founding ideals of freedom, equality, and justice for all,” Mayor Reed said.
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