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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. -- ...

A World War II soldier from Oklahoma helped the Allies win the war by talking in his native tongue -- something he was forbidden to do as a child. Charles Chibitty, who died in 2005, often recalled ...

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 ...