100-year-old WWII veteran honored with street renaming in New Jersey hometown

EAST ORANGE, New Jersey (WABC) -- One New Jersey town is honoring a 100-year-old World War II veteran by renaming a street after her. The street that Gladys Blount used to live on, North Oraton Parkway and Davis Place, is now named after her. Seventy-seven years ago, Blount was shipped from her hometown of East Orange, New Jersey, to England to help in WWII. She was a member of an exclusive all Black, all female postal battalion. The 855 Black women were given the massive task of sorting through millions of letters and packages.