Choctaw+Code+Talkers+of+WWI

This image above shows some of the Choctaw code-talkers in WWI. This image was taken before 1918. = = = = = **//The ideal of Choctaw Code talk//** = = = = media type="youtube" key="weCQ9YxJ4Mw" height="390" width="480" = = = = In World War One there were major issues that involved phones calls being overheard by the German forces. It =

was fairly certain that the German spy's could interrupt any type of phone call to hear every and anything little

thing they could. The untied States came up with a lot of creative ideas of technology but as time past none of

them were good enough. One type of idea they had was trech codes. Trech codes worked for a while but not as

long as needed. The Germans found a way to crack in between the code. Sending messages from camp to

camp never worked out as planed because the Germans would capture the messengers. Since the ideas that

were thought either didnt work because the Germans found out how to understand the code or didnt work

because the germans would capture the messegers that were send to deliver messages from camp to camp,

Captian Lewis, which was the commander at time and very intelligent thought of a ideal code. the Choctaw

code by American Indians. Captian Lewis soon realized that the American Indian code was very hard, and an

extreme cloplex and difficult to learn. So he capitalized the complexity as a code employing eight Choctaw

Indians that later got involved during the Mousse-Argonne campaign. This was the final push of the German

war.

= //Who were the Choctaw Talkers?// =

 //What did they do?//
The eight Indians involved in this code were...


 * Solomon Lewis
 * Mitchell Bobb
 * Ben Carterby
 * Robert Taylor
 * Jeff Nelson
 * Pete Maytubby
 * James Edwards
 * Calvin Wilson

The whole group of Choctaw people involved were...


 * Albert Billy
 * Mitchel Bobb
 * Victor Brown
 * Ben Caterby
 * James Edwards
 * Tobias Frazer
 * Ben Hampton
 * Solomon Louis
 * Pete Maytubby
 * Jeff Nelson
 * Joseph Oklahombi
 * Robert Taylor
 * Calvin Wilson
 * Walter Veach

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These were Navajo Indians from Arizona. Working in the war, the men soon realized that there job wasn't as

easy as they thought it would be. The jobs of the Indians were to speak their language over the phone and

translate it to english. they also had to write everything down from code to english written filed orders that were

carried by the "runners" between the two. These men were only used at the end of the war and in the Mousse-

Argonne campaign. These eight men were highly appreciated by their battalion commander and company and

was promised metals. Getting to the end of the war 14 of the Choctaw Indains in the Army's thirty-six division

was trained to learn the Choctaw code language, so they would put at least one memeber in the trenches and

communicate that way. The Choctaw coder talkers were not only used in World War one but also in World

War two. There has been no more records of this code being used.

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In this picture above there is the orginal 15 men that learned the Choctaw code.

=//**Germany's Reaction to the code**//=

When the Choctaw code was begining to be a big hit the Germans tried so hard to crack the new code, but

they were lost and confused. they had stopped attacking supply dumps and counter attacking the American

troops. When a German officer was later captured they had admitted the had no idea what the Idians were

talking about and was confused. ([]) ([])

This is the memorial of the original Choctaw talkers.

By: Jada Bolden

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