By William C. Meadows
Among the allied troops that got here ashore in Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, have been 13 Comanches within the 4th Infantry department, 4th sign corporation. less than German fireplace they laid communications traces and commenced sending messages in a kind by no means earlier than heard in Europe—coded Comanche. For the remainder of global conflict II, the Comanche Code Talkers performed a necessary position in transmitting orders and messages in a code that used to be by no means damaged by means of the Germans.
This booklet tells the whole tale of the Comanche Code Talkers for the 1st time. Drawing on interviews with all surviving contributors of the unit, their unique education officer, and fellow squaddies, in addition to army documents and information bills, William C. Meadows follows the crowd from their recruitment and coaching to their lively accountability in global battle II and on via their postwar lives as much as the current. He additionally offers the 1st comparability of local American code speaking courses, evaluating the Comanche Code Talkers with their better-known Navajo opposite numbers within the Pacific and with different local american citizens who used their languages, coded or now not, for mystery verbal exchange. Meadows units this historical past in a bigger dialogue of the improvement of local American code speaking in international Wars I and II, picking out precise kinds of local American code conversing, interpreting the attitudes of the yank army towards local American code talkers, and assessing the advanced cultural components that led Comanche and different local american citizens to serve their state during this way.
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