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THIS INDIAN TOOK171 OKRVANS PRISONEROKLAHOMA CITY. Okla.. July S ~ Private Joseph Oklahombi, J4-year of,I Choctaw Indian, named In a special; citation for his fighting record by, thr French General Petain. and Jus* discharged from military service, has returned to his home near Wright, Me-Curtain County, Okla. His friends assert he probably holds the record i.ext to that of Alvin York, the fighting parson” of TennesseeOklahombi, it is said, is credita 1 with having captured a total of 171 Germans, with participation »n fifty successful stormlngs of enemy machine gun nests, and with having crossed No Man’s Land many times to secure information for the alliedj armies.Peculiarly the returned soldier’s name. ‘‘Oklahombi” is the Ohoctiw word lor mankiller ”
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Abilene Daily Reporter
Abilene, Texas, US
Thu, Jul 03, 1919
Page 3
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