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TexasProgresive

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1. A friend told me last week that his uncle Henry was a code talker.

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Thu Jun 5, 2014, 05:50 AM

Jun 2014

Henry was not Navajo. Evidently Quite a few Native American tribes were "code talkers."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_talker

A memoir has been written by an actual code talker. Chester Nez (ca. 1921 – June 4, 2014) was the last survivor of the original Navajo code talkers in World War II. He helped to develop the famous code and then took it into battle to prove that it would work. His memoir is Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir by One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII.[29]

May they rest in peace.

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