Fort Huachuca, AZ. - In June 1944, when Comanche Indian Cpl. Charles Chibitty landed on Utah Beach in Normandy, his first radio message was to another Comanche on an incoming boat. He transmitted it ...

LAWTON, Okla. (AP) – Personal photographs, military uniforms and a Nazi flag captured during World War II are some of the items on display in a new exhibit that opened Thursday honoring 17 members of ...

An exhibit honoring 17 members of the Comanche Nation who used their language as a code during World War II is set to open in southwestern Oklahoma. The exhibit opening Thursday coincides with the ...

1. Charles Chibitty is the last surviving Comanche "code talker" from World War II. He was among a small band who developed a code using the Comanche language to befuddle German cryptographers. 2. As ...

Napoleon once said, “the secret of war lies in the communications.” If he were around today, he might have revised it to “secure communications.” During World Wars I and II, the military needed a ...

Code talkers in the world wars have yet to receive formal recognition from the U.S. government for their secret language that outfoxed the enemy and saved lives in combat. They also saved their ...

Hollywood is set to capture the story of the American Indian code talkers on film. The new movie "Windtalkers" was released Friday and one of those heroes from World War II lives in Oklahoma and was ...

NMAI copy 39088019930726 Purchased with Adopt-a-Book funds. NMAI copy 39088019930726 signed by author. "Thanks to the 2002 Hollywood film Windtalkers, the Navajo code talkers of World War II emerged ...

Foreword / by Geary Hobson -- Publisher's note / Lee Francis IV -- Prologue / written by Lee Francis IV ; artwork by Arigon Starr -- We speak in secret / written and illustrated by Roy Boney, Jr. -- ...