Chester Nez, last of the World War II Navajo 'code talkers, ' passes away quietly at 93

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By William Knowles
Senior Editor
InfoSec News
June 5, 2014

Chester Nez, the last original Navajo Code Talker, has passed away quietly 
in his sleep at his Albuquerque home.

Nez served with the United States Marines in the Pacific and helped defeat 
the Japanese by creating a code, using the Navajo language, and secret 
words that was never broken.

Sent to a boarding school as a child, Nez and other Navajo children were 
discouraged from speaking their native language and instructed to only use 
English, but that didn’t stop them from whispering Navajo to each other in 
secret. In 1942, Navajo were recruited from boarding schools to join the 
Marines and use their unique skills to develop an unbreakable code to pass 
messages.

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