Charles Chibitty was a Comanche code talker who used his native language to relay messages for the Allies during World War II. Chibitty, and 16 other Comanches had been recruited by the U.S. military for this purpose since Comanche was a language that was entirely unknown to the Germans, who were unable to decipher it. (The Navajos performed a similar duty in the Pacific War.) Chibitty was born on November 20, 1921, in a tent 16 miles west of Lawton, Oklahoma. Wikipedia
Charles Chibitty, 83, the last of the Comanche code talkers who used their native tongue to confound Hitler's forces during World War II, died July 20 of complications of diabetes at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa. He had been living at a Tulsa nursing hom www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/25/...
Along with 16 other Comanche Indians, Chibitty was part of the Army's 4th Signal Company, also known as the Code Talkers. Like the Choctaws of World War I, and the Navajos in the Pacific Theater, the Comanche Code Talkers used their native language to pr www.defenselink.mil/releases/1999/b11301999_bt550-99.html
WASHINGTON, July 29, 2005 When Charles "Charlie" J. Chibitty, the last World War II Comanche code talker, was buried July 26, a friend wrote in the eulogy, "Charlie's life has no foreshadowing or ending. www.defenselink.mil/news/Jul2005/20050729_2278.html
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