1. WWII : Enlistment and Deployment

2. A. 1940: Peacetime draft The Draft on the Rez
1. registration
2. collaboration and resistance
3. Language
4. Health: “Don’t want to run, want to fight.”
May 1941 investigation of high rejection of Indians, 45%
Plecker and Oliver Fortune
Warren Eldreth Green (Onondaga) May 1941 case in Federal court
Pre-emptive Enlistment

3. B. Dec 7, 1941
Various declarations: June 13, 1942 Iro. declared war on Axis

4. C. European front
“Watch out, Hitler – the Indians are after your Scalp!”
Stories and reality
2nd Lt. Ernest Childers (Creek, Broken Arrow, OK) In Italy, Sept took out German position twice
Southern Italy, US Nazi POW camp
Indian War dances
Frankie Redbone (Kiowa) in France 1944 in German POW camp

5. D. Code Talking Revisited
Autumn 1940 Chippewa-Oneidas radio operators
Iowa Nat. Guard Sac-Fox radio ops. deployed in US
1941 expanded to Pueblos in Philippines
Spring 1942: 30 Comanches in Signal Corps deployed in Europe
August 7, 1942: Navajo inductees to Guadalcanal
By Autumn 2nd Marine Div. arrives
Radio Codeword “Arizona” or “New Mexico”
Army Signal Corps June 1943 attempt Indian Campaign

6. E. Pacific Front
Dec Philippines Bataan Death March Lt. Col. Edward Ernest McClish (Choctaw, OK)
Sept. 1943: 24 Creeks to Solomon Is.
Feb. 1945: Ira Hayes (Pima, AZ) Iwo Jima and Mt. Suribachi

7. F. Post War Reception
Commendations
Homelife
POW-MIA