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IUi#'X• •Indian With a Warlike Name Next to YorkOklahombi, “MankiBer,” Captured 171 Hun Soldiers.4 • • .%Idabel, Okla., June 30.—(Special.) Private Joseph Oklahombi, a• • iChoctaw Indian lad, 24 years old, j? living near Wright, in McCurtain If county, probably holds the record next to that 6f Alvin York, the Tennessee fighting. parson, for individual accomplishment in the fighting in France- Oklahombi has. just reached home, with his di*r.. charge from th^ army. He holds a special citation from the French commander, Petain, for his fightingvrecord. It is stated that Oklahombf captured 171 Germans, rushed on i and stormed the positions of fifty machine gun nests and trench * mortars, turned on the enemy ahcnrheld his positions four days, and' 1crossed MNo Manfs Lartd^ rrta ny ] times to get information of the \I Ienomy. - j‘A peculiar coincidence is that the ! boy's name, Oklahombi, is the Choo- I taw tndian word for “Ma^ki^ier.,, |
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Muskogee Times Democrat
Muskogee, Oklahoma, US
Mon, Jun 30, 1919
Page 7
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Ryan B.
USA 21 Jan 2017
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