Last WWII Comanche "code talker" dies in Oklahoma

[Udhay Shankar N]

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."


-- 
((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))


---------------------------------------------------------------------
The Cryptography Mailing List
Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo at metzdowd.com