Charles Chibitty
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Charles Joyce Chibitty was a Native American and United States Army code talker in World War II, who helped transmit coded messages in the Comanche language on the battlefield as a radio operator in t
Chibitty in 2002
Chibitty (front row, second from right) with fellow U.S. Army code talkers
Fourragère CG TOE
Lt. Woody J. Cochran holding a Japanese flag, New Guinea, 04 01 1943 NARA 519155
Lawton, Oklahoma
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Lawton is a city in and the county seat of Comanche County, in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Located in western Oklahoma, approximately 87 mi southwest of Oklahoma City, it is the principal city of the
Charles Chibitty
…thousands of American and Allied personnel. Chibitty was born in a small tent outside of Medicine Park, Oklahoma, a city located 14 miles north-west of Lawton. He attended Fort Sill Indian School as a child. While a high school student at the Haskell Indian School in Lawrence, Kansas, he constantly heard…
Lawton City Hall (2010)
Major General Henry Ware Lawton
Lawton in 1933
Comanche County Memorial Hospital