Re: Last WWII Comanche code talker dies in Oklahoma
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 - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Last WWII Comanche code talker dies in Oklahoma
Em Segunda 01 Agosto 2005 02:40, Udhay Shankar N escreveu: [resending this, after it didn't reach the list first time. I seem to have fallen off the list, and am back on now. I hope this isn't a repeat. /udhay] http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050721170009990017 Last WWII Comanche code talker dies in Oklahoma Wasn't that navajo instead? - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Last WWII Comanche code talker dies in Oklahoma
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Last WWII Comanche code talker dies in Oklahoma
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 08:25:35PM -0300, Andreas Hasenack wrote: Em Segunda 01 Agosto 2005 02:40, Udhay Shankar N escreveu: [resending this, after it didn't reach the list first time. I seem to have fallen off the list, and am back on now. I hope this isn't a repeat. /udhay] http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050721170009990017 Last WWII Comanche code talker dies in Oklahoma Wasn't that navajo instead? No, the Navajo code talkers were used in the Pacific, in Europe it was the Comanches. -- /\ ASCII RIBBON NOTICE: If received in error, \ / CAMPAIGN Victor Duchovni please destroy and notify X AGAINST IT Security, sender. Sender does not waive / \ HTML MAILMorgan Stanley confidentiality or privilege, and use is prohibited. - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Last WWII Comanche code talker dies in Oklahoma
[resending this, after it didn't reach the list first time. I seem to have fallen off the list, and am back on now. I hope this isn't a repeat. /udhay] http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050721170009990017 Last WWII Comanche code talker dies in Oklahoma By Ben Fenwick, Reuters OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma (Reuters) - The last surviving Comanche code talker from World War Two, Charles Chibitty, has died at a nursing home in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a tribal spokeswoman said Thursday. Chibitty, who died Wednesday at age 83, was one of the 14 Comanche tribesmen who transmitted radio messages in their native language during the D-Day invasion of Normandy in 1944. In a 2002 speech Chibitty said: I wonder what the hell Hitler thought when he heard those strange voices over there, when we hit D-Day at Utah Beach. Now old Hitler, he's probably scratching his head yet down in his grave. He said they called Nazi dictator Adolph Hitler posah tai vo which means crazy white man. The Germans could not understand them, thus the Comanches were called code talkers. snip -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com)) - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
