From Fort Des Moines to the big screen

From training grounds to the battlefields and skies, Iowa shows its pride

If you’ve watched the Netflix film “The Six Triple Eight,” you’ve viewed the story of how a Black unit of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps served a vital but unheralded role in World War II by handling mail from the homefront to the front lines.

What you may not realize is that several of the main characters in the Tyler Perry movie — Charity Adams Earle…