The code talking of these Native Americans was practiced under dangerous and stressing conditions. They performed code talking willingly and without question. Even more outstanding, code talking was a service that the Native American soldiers exposed to a government which had conquered their own people. Some of the code talkers lost their lives, and many were wounded during the war.

"Hundreds of native nations served the armed forces of the U.S. in a vital and unique capacity, by using their native languages to foil enemy communications" (Tripod.com)."

The Code talkers helped in many tasks using their code to defeat the enemy. In World War I, The Choctaw Indians successfully confused the Germans who tried to tap the U.S. Communications.

"More than 25,000 Native Americans served, some in radio communications where they spoke in their own languages to befuddle enemy listeners in combat."(U.S. and WWII, pg. 189)

The American Military wanted to take full use of the Native America

In 1941 Charles volunteered to be a Comanche code talker. He did this because he heard that the army needed someone of the Native American ethnicity who spoke their language. Chibitty was apart of the 4th Signal Company, which played a big role in the Normandy Invasion.

By the time Pearl Harbour came, the Comanche code talkers had perfected over 250 codes, which they memorized. "The Comanches began a two-year odyssey up and down the United States' East Coast, finally going to the United Kingdom for training geared toward invading Nazi-occupied Europe" (Army.mil). They also encoded a series of directions from General George Patton, which led to success of destroying German army tank.

Known as the "Last Comanche Code Talker", Charles Chibitty is now 78 years of age. He resides in Tulsa Oklahoma. Chibitty was born near Medicine Park, Oklahoma on November 20, 1921. He attended Haskell Indian School in Lawrence, Kansas.

The code talkers developed a dictionary and numerous words for military terms. Words like dive-bomber were translated into the Native American word meaning "chicken hawk" and platoons were renamed "mud". "What a code talker heard was a string of seemingly unrelated thoughts. The first step was to translate each Navajo word into its English equivalent. Then, the first letter of each English word was combined to reveal secret military communication" (Newsday.com). For example, the Navajo language for Navy would be "Tsah Wol-la-chee Ah-keh-di-glini tsah-ah-dzoh" or "(N)eedle (A)nt (V)ictor (Y)ucca".

Seventeen men were trained to use the Comanche code, but only fourteen were allowed to participate in the European Theater. Although these men were code talkers, many of them were wounded. However, none of them were killed.

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