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

by Meadows, William C., 1966-

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Austin : University of Texas Press, 2002.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Cryptography.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Indian.

Comanche Indians.

World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Normandy.

0292752636 (cloth : alk. paper)

0292752741 (pbk. : alk. paper)

xxvi, 280 p., [13] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.

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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