The Comanche Code Talkers of World War II /

The Comanche Code Talkers of World War II / / William C. Meadows.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Meadows, William C.,
MitwirkendeR:
Charney, Jean O.,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2003
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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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

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