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Some code talkers such as Chester Nez and William Dean Yazzie (aka Dean Wilson) continued to serve in the Marine Corps through the Korean War. Rumors of the deployment of the Navajo code into the Korean War and after have never been proven.
Defender met her future husband William Dean Wilson (previously known as William Diné Yazzie) in 1949 at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas, [12] where Wilson was sent following his discharge from the military after World War II. They married in 1969. [42] Her husband worked as a Navajo tribal judge in New Mexico. [5]
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.
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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 ...
Philip Johnston (September 14, 1892, in Topeka, Kansas – September 11, 1978, in San Diego, California) [1] was an American civil engineer who is credited with proposing the idea of using the Navajo language as a Navajo code to be used in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
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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.