Last of WWII Comanche Code Talkers Dies

[Jin-Roh]

OKLAHOMA CITY - Charles Chibitty, the last survivor of the Comanche code talkers who used their native language to transmit messages for the Allies in Europe during World War II, has died. He was 83.
:candle:

[bar Jonah]

OKLAHOMA CITY - Charles Chibitty, the last survivor of the Comanche code talkers who used their native language to transmit messages for the Allies in Europe during World War II, has died. He was 83.
:candle:
Moments of greatness in military history.


It's too bad the movie was more about the white guys. :doh:

[rmwilliamsjr]

what movie?
Code Talkers was about the Navajos in the Pacific.
i've never heard about Comanche code talkers in Europe
until now.

a quote from: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,163266,00.html




"It's strange, but growing up as a child I was forbidden to speak my native language at school," Chibitty said in 2002. "Later my country asked me to. My language helped win the war and that makes me very proud. Very proud. "

[bar Jonah]

what movie?
Code Talkers was about the Navajos in the Pacific.
i've never heard about Comanche code talkers in Europe
until now.

a quote from: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,163266,00.html
True. Same gist, though.