Here's the article: DefenseLINK News: Last WWII Comanche Code Talker Visits Pentagon, Arlington Cemetery And a couple of photos: JT
Thanks for the link which has taught me something I did not know - that the Navajos were not the only Native American code-talkers. Cheers, Gerry
I'm another who didn't know that there were code talkers from the Comanche as well as the Navajo & I was also unaware that code talkers were used in Normandy as well as in the Pacific.
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." "We lost a lot of men there," Chibitty said. "You could see guys going down everywhere when they were coming in on the boats." Chibitty's force later fought through the Siegfried line and then in the battle of the Hurtgen Forest. The unit then liberated a concentration camp.
Speaking of stovepipes, the first German anti-tank rocket launcher was a weapon based on a captured American Bazooka. While officially designated the 8.8cm Raketen Panzerbüchse, it was also called a Stovepipe - Ofenrohr (as well as Panzerschreck). I had no idea that Indians (Choctaws) served as code talkers during WWI. And I wonder whether the Navaho and Comanches worked in separate theaters in WWII because their languages were mutually unintelligible, or for some other reason. JT