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Code talker. Choctaw soldiers in training in World War I for coded radio and telephone transmissions. A code talker was a person employed by the military during wartime to use a little-known language as a means of secret communication. The term is most often used for United States service members during the World Wars who used their knowledge ...
Ben Carterby (December 11, 1891 – February 6, 1953). Carterby was a full blood Choctaw roll number 2045 born in Ida, Choctaw County, Oklahoma. Benjamin Franklin Colbert Born September 15, 1900, at Durant Indian Territory, died January 1964. He was the youngest Code Talker.
Chester Nez. Chester Nez (January 23, 1921 – June 4, 2014) was an American veteran of World War II. He was the last surviving original Navajo code talker who served in the United States Marine Corps during the war. [ 1][ 2][ 3]
Tobias William Frazier, Sr. (1892–1975) was a full-blood Choctaw Indian who was a member of the famous fourteen Choctaw Code Talkers. The Code Talkers pioneered the use of American Indian languages as military code during war. Their initial exploits took place during World War I, and were repeated by other Native American tribes during World ...
Children. 5. Other work. Ammunition inspector. Alfred K. Newman (July 7, 1924 – January 13, 2019) was a United States Marine, best known for serving as a Navajo code talker during World War II . Born in Rehoboth, New Mexico, [1] on the Navajo Nation, Newman and his fellow native students were not allowed to speak the Navajo language in school ...
Edmond Andrew Harjo (November 24, 1917 – March 31, 2014) was an American Seminole Code Talker during World War II. [ 1] Harjo, who served with his brothers at Normandy landings and the Battle of the Bulge, was the last surviving code talker from the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma. [ 2][ 3][ 4] On November 20, 2013, a group representing thirty ...
Philip was the Navajo/English translator between the local Navajo leaders and President Roosevelt. Around 1909–10, Johnston attended the Northern Arizona Normal School, [ 3] now Northern Arizona University, where he earned an academic degree. In March 1918 he enlisted in the U.S. Army's 319th Engineers, where he received a reserve commission.
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