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Comanche code a well-kept secret used in Normandy D-Day invasion.
Byline: Peter Sigal
PHILADELPHIA _ Amid the chaos of the D-Day assault on Normandy's fortified beaches, what may have been the first Comanche words heard in Europe crackled over an Army radio.
"Pee-ah ah-tah too-koo tah-nee way."
Translation: "Right beach, wrong place."
To any Germans listening in, it meant nothing. And for the rest of World War II, the language remained an enigma to the Nazi's code crackers.
The D-Day message was sent by one of 14 Comanche American Indians recruited in 1941 to create a military code using their native speech, which had never been written and was forbidden in the reservation schools for several thousand tribe members in Oklahoma.
"They were listening, but they didn't know what we were talking about," said Charlie Chibitty, 81, of Tulsa, Okla., the only living Comanche…
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