The Comanche Code Talkers of World War II: 25th Anniversary Edition, Revised and Updated

An updated edition of a popular study of the Comanche Code Talkers of WWII. Among the Allied troops who came ashore in Normandy on D-Day were thirteen Comanches in the 4th Infantry Division's 4th Signal Company.Under German fire they laid communications lines and sent 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 transmitting orders in a code the Germans never broke.Drawing on interviews with surviving members of the unit, their training officer, and fellow soldiers, as well as archival records, William C.Meadows traces the Comanche Code Talkers from recruitment and training through wartime service and into their postwar lives.He also places their story within the broader history of Native American code talking in the world wars, comparing the Comanche program with the better-known Navajo Code Talkers and examining the military's use of Native languages for secure communication. This twenty-fif