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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 15 February 2025. Military personnel using their native languages for secret wartime communication "Codetalkers" redirects here. For the band, see the Codetalkers. For the Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain character, see list of characters in the Metal Gear series § Code Talker. Choctaw soldiers in ...
Merril L. [1] Sandoval (April 18, 1925 [2] – February 9, 2008) was an American Navajo World War II veteran and a member of the Navajo Code Talkers, [2] a group of United States Marines who transmitted important messages in their native Navajo language in order to stop the Japanese from intercepting sensitive material. [3]
Fleming Begaye Sr. (August 26, 1921 [1] – May 10, 2019) [2] was a Navajo code talker during World War II.He was born in Red Valley, Arizona, was a member of the Navajo Nation, and attended Fort Wingate boarding school.
Oct. 20—John Kinsel Sr. sat in the front row for the photo, on the far right side. It was 1942, and he was a fresh-faced teenager, having graduated from St. Catherine Indian School in Santa Fe ...
The Choctaw code talkers were a group of Choctaw Indians from Oklahoma who pioneered the use of Native American languages as military code during World War I. The government of the Choctaw Nation maintains that the men were the first American native code talkers ever to serve in the US military. They were conferred the Texas Medal of Valor in ...
Kenji Kawano has been photographing the Navajo code talkers, America's secret weapon during WWII, for 50 years. It all started in 1975 with a chance encounter that would take over his life.
Charles Joyce Chibitty (November 20, 1921 – July 20, 2005) was a Native American and United States Army code talker in World War II, who helped transmit coded messages in the Comanche (Nʉmʉnʉʉ) language on the battlefield as a radio operator in the European Theater of the war.
Frank Tsosie Thompson (September 4, 1920 – June 2, 2008) was an American Navajo code talker in the United States Marines during World War II. [1] Biography