By William C. Meadows
This article tells the total tale of the Comanche Code Talkers. Drawing on interviews with all surviving contributors of the unit, their unique education officer, and fellow infantrymen, in addition to army files and information money owed, William C. Meadows follows the crowd from their recruitment and coaching to their energetic accountability in global warfare II and on via their postwar lives as much as the current. He additionally offers a comparability of local American code speaking courses, evaluating the Comanche Code Talkers with their better-known Navajo opposite numbers within the Pacific and with different local american citizens who used their languages, coded or now not, for mystery communique. Meadows units this historical past in a bigger dialogue of the advance of local American code conversing in international Wars I and II, determining unique types of local American code speaking, interpreting the attitudes of the yankee army towards local American code talkers, and assessing the advanced cultural components that led Comanche and different local american citizens to serve their nation during this approach.
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Government control over reservations and the availability of annual tribal censuses allowed for an acceleration in promoting Native American enlistments and registration. Secretary of War Baker allowed Indian agencies to act as recruiting and induction centers. While the drafting of Indians was handled by local draft boards, the recruitment of volunteers was supported by agency and school officials, and Indian Service employees were required to serve as registrars and as members of registration boards (Hale 1982:39– 40; Holm 1996:99).
The American objective was to break westward through the German forces known as the “Hindenburg Line,” a concentration comprising the twenty miles between the Meuse River and the Argonne Forest. Characterized by heavy growth and steep ravines, the terrain was strategically defensive, and offensively problematic (Britten 1997:79). S. Army’s Thirty-sixth Division were instrumental in helping the American Expeditionary Force win several key battles, including the Battle of St. Etienne, during the Meuse-Argonne campaign.
1996:100 –101) While American military and governmental leaders promoted integrated military service as a means of increasing acculturation, an explanation using dependency theory is far too simplistic, and correlates neither with existing American nor Native American data. 4 Enlistment was also not motivated strictly from a desire to assimilate into mainstream American society. If dependency and the desire to assimilate were sufficient explanations, then there should not have been the dramatically increased post–World War I tribal ceremonialism that rekindled past traditions and continues to the present day (Parman 1994:60, 63; Meadows 1995:407– 409; Britten 1997:84, 01-T2336 10/9/02 2:28 PM Page 11 149–151).