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Re: Last WWII Comanche "code talker" dies in Oklahoma

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel F. Fisher)
Wed Aug 3 08:44:28 2005

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Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 08:06:38 -0400
From: "Daniel F. Fisher" <dff@acm.org>
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Andreas Hasenack> Wasn't that "navajo" instead?

I wondered about that myself. With some googling, I have found that
native american code talkers were used from a number of tribes (Navajo,
Comanche, Choctaw). Code talkers were also used in WW I. Here are some 
links:

     http://www.comanchelanguage.org/code_talkers.htm
     http://codetalkers.info/content/view/20/37/

-Dan




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