Seinfeld

SEINFELD BLOG

The Comanche Code Talkers of World War II

by: William C. Meadows

: The Comanche Code Talkers of World War II
See Larger Image
List Price: $24.95
You Pay Only: $19.46
You Save: $5.49 (22%)
Prices subject to change.



Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours




Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5403
EAN: 9780292752740
ISBN: 0292752741
Label: University of Texas Press
Manufacturer: University of Texas Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: February 01, 2003
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Sales Rank: 905508
Studio: University of Texas Press



Related Items:

Editorial Review:

Product Description:

'Of all the books on Native American service in the U.S. armed forces, this is the best.... Readers will find the story of the Comanche Code Talkers compelling, humorous, thought-provoking, and inspiring.'

—Tom Holm, author of Strong Hearts, Wounded Souls: Native American Veterans of the Vietnam War



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 World War II, the Comanche Code Talkers played a vital role in transmitting orders and messages in a code that was never broken by the Germans.



This book tells the full story of the Comanche Code Talkers for the first time. Drawing on interviews with all surviving members of the unit, their original training officer, and fellow soldiers, as well as military records and news accounts, William C. Meadows follows the group from their recruitment and training to their active duty in World War II and on through their postwar lives up to the present. He also provides the first comparison of Native American code talking programs, comparing the Comanche Code Talkers with their better-known Navajo counterparts in the Pacific and with other Native Americans who used their languages, coded or not, for secret communication. Meadows sets this history in a larger discussion of the development of Native American code talking in World Wars I and II, identifying two distinct forms of Native American code talking, examining the attitudes of the American military toward Native American code talkers, and assessing the complex cultural factors that led Comanche and other Native Americans to serve their country in this way.





Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Excellent book
An excellent book that chronicles events during World War II that were largely unknown and unheralded ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Very Interesting
The first two chapters have a lot of statics and history in them. The interesting part begins at chapter ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Last Comanche code talker
Charles Chibitty, the last surviving Comanche code talker, died in July, 2005, at the age of 83.


Browse for similar items by category:







Copyright ©2003, Mark Carey.