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Re: Last WWII Comanche "code talker" dies in Oklahoma
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Udhay Shankar N)
Tue Aug 2 17:21:08 2005
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Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 19:38:09 +0530
To: Andreas Hasenack <ahasenack@terra.com.br>,
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From: Udhay Shankar N <udhay@pobox.com>
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At 04:55 AM 8/2/2005, Andreas Hasenack wrote:
> > Last WWII Comanche "code talker" dies in Oklahoma
>
>Wasn't that "navajo" instead?
From the article:
>Chibitty joined the Army in 1941 at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, when he and other
>Comanches heard the Army wanted them. Navajo Indians were used for the
>same purpose in the Pacific theater.
>
>By the time the code talkers got to England, the Allies had amassed the
>largest invasion force in history.
>
>Chibitty's unit landed on June 6, 1944, with Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt
>Jr. on Utah beach, but in the wrong place. One of the code talkers sent
>the first message of D-Day: "Right beach, wrong place."
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