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The Comanche code talkers of World War II / William C. Meadows.

Meadows, William C., 1966- (Author).

Summary:

This book tells the full story of the Comanche Code Talkers for the first time. Drawing on interviews with all surviving members of the unit, their original training officer, and fellow soldiers, as well as military records and news accounts, the author follows the group from their recruitment and training to their active duty in World War II and on through their postwar lives up to present. He also provides the first comparison of Native American code talking programs, comparing the Comanche Code Talkers with their better-known Navajo counterparts in the Pacific and with other Native American code talking in World Wars I and II, identifying two distinct forms of Native American code talking, examining the attitudes of the American military toward Native American code talkers, and assessing the complex cultural factors that led Comanche and other Native Americans to serve their country in this way.

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  • ISBN: 0292752636
  • ISBN: 9780292752634
  • ISBN: 0292752741
  • ISBN: 9780292752740
  • Physical Description: xxvi, 280 pages, [13] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2002.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-275) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Notes on the Comanche sound system / by Jean O. Charney -- The origins of Native American code talking -- Native American servicemen and code talkers in World War II -- "Get him back on that scale and weigh him again!" -- "Utekwapa naka = I hear what you say" -- Fighting Po'sataiboo' : Crazy White Man -- "Numurekwa'etuu = Comanche speakers!" -- Appendix A, Members of Company E, 142d Infantry, Thirty-sixth Division, World War I. Appendix B, World War I Choctaw code talkers. Appendix C, Organization of the Fourth Infantry Division, 1941-1945. Appendix D, Combat narrative of the Fourth Infantry Division. Appendix E, Fourth Infantry Division campaign (June 6, 1944 to May 8, 1945). Appendix F, Fourth Signal Company activities, 1940-1945. Appendix G, Glossary of Comanche code terms. Appendix H, Known Native American code talkers of World Wars I and II (tribes, group size, form of code talking, and military units).

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Subject:
World War, 1939-1945 > Cryptography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, Indian.
Indian code talkers.
Comanche Indians.
World War, 1939-1945 > France > Normandy.

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