Charles Chibitty, 83, the last known survivor of the Comanche "code talkers" who used their native language to transmit messages for the Allies in Europe during World War II, died Wednesday at a nursing home in Tulsa, Okla. The cause of death was not announced.
Chibitty was part of the group of Comanche Indians from Oklahoma who were selected for special duty in the Army to provide the Allies with a language that the Germans could not decipher. Like the larger group of Navajo Indians who performed a similar service in the Pacific theater, the Comanches were dubbed code talkers.
