Navajo code talkers world war 2 names
Navajo code talkers world war 2 names
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Navajo Code Talkers: The last of the living WWII heroes share their stories
Update: Navajo Code Talker Joe Vandever Sr. died Jan. 31, 2020, at the age of 96.
In 1942, during the depths of World War II, the United States Marine Corps recruited 29 Navajo men to develop an unbreakable code that would be used across the Pacific during the war.
They would later be known as Navajo Code Talkers.
The Code Talkers participated in assaults that the United States Marines led in the Pacific from 1942 to 1945, including the Guadalcanal campaign and the battles of Tarawa, Peleliu and Iwo Jima.
They conveyed messages by telephone and radio in the Navajo language, a code that was never broken by the Japanese.
By the end of the war, there would be more than 400 Navajo men who served as Code Talkers.
Only five are living today: Peter MacDonald, Joe Vandever Sr., Samuel F. Sandoval, Thomas H. Begay, and John Kinsel Sr.
In the early part of 2019, the Navajo Nation lost three code talkers in