Tyler Perry will direct his next feature film for  Netflix  with Six Triple Eight about the 6888th battalion, the only all-black, all-female battalion in the World War II effort.

Tyler Perry, based on an article by Kevin M. Hymel published in WWII History Magazine by Sovereign Media.

Six Triple Eight tells the inspiring true story of the incredible and brave women of the only all-black, all-female World War 2 Battalion. These 855 women joined the war effort with little knowledge of what exactly they would be doing but were quickly given the mission of a lifetime: sort through and fix the three-year backlog of undelivered mail. A herculean task, that most thought to be impossible, the women not only succeeded but did it in half the time they were given. Facing discrimination, unfamiliar land, and a war-torn country, they persevered and sorted over 17 million pieces of mail, reconnecting American soldiers with their families and loved ones back home.