Navajo Code Talkers: The last of the living WWII heroes share their stories

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https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2019/08/29/navajo-code-talkers-ww-2-names/1940556001/

By Shondiin Silversmith
Arizona Republic
August 29, 2019

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 less 
than a month. As a result, The Arizona Republic decided to document and share 
their stories.

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