The Comanche Code Talkers of World War II / / William C. Meadows.
Among the allied troops that came ashore in Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, were thirteen Comanches in the 4th Infantry Division, 4th Signal Company. Under German fire they laid communications lines and began sending messages in a form never before heard in Europe—coded Comanche. For the rest of Wo...
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Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2003 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on the Comanche Sound System
- 1. The Origins of Native American Code Talking
- 2. Native American Servicemen and Code Talkers in World War II
- 3. “Get him back on that scale and weigh him again!”
- 4. “Utekwapa naka: I hear what you say.”
- 5. Fighting Po’sataiboo’: Crazy White Man
- 6. “Numurekwa’etuu: Comanche Speakers!”
- A. Members of Company E, 142d Infantry, Thirty-sixth Division, World War I
- B. World War I Choctaw Code Talkers
- C. Organization of the Fourth Infantry Division, 1941–1945
- D. Combat Narrative of the Fourth Infantry Division
- E. Fourth Infantry Division Campaign (June 6, 1944, to May 8, 1945)
- F. Fourth Signal Company Activities, 1940 –1945
- G. Glossary of Comanche Code Terms
- H. Known Native American Code Talkers of World Wars I and II (Tribes, Group Size, Form of Code Talking, and Military Units)
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index