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 ...

Growing up near Lawton, Charles Chibitty attended government schools where he was forbidden to speak his native language, Comanche. Barely in his 20s, Chibitty was sent to World War II by the United ...

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. -- ...

First forbidden, then applauded, the Comanche language has helped define Charles Chibitty and has given him a place in history. As a boy, growing up in Lawton and attending government schools, he 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 ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The El Pueblo Motor Inn, or what’s left of it anyway, sits vacant behind a chain-link fence along Route 66, its stucco walls clad in weathered sheets of construction tarp. At first ...