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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 of Native American languages as a basis to transmit coded messages.
Charles Joyce Chibitty (November 20, 1921 – July 20, 2005) was a Native American and United States Army code talker in World War II, who helped transmit coded messages in the Comanche (Nʉmʉnʉʉ) language on the battlefield as a radio operator in the European Theater of the war. In 2013, Native American Code Talkers of World War I and II ...
The Choctaw code talkers were a group of Choctaw Indians from Oklahoma who pioneered the use of Native American languages as military code during World War I . The government of the Choctaw Nation maintains that the men were the first American native code talkers ever to serve in the US military. They were conferred the Texas Medal of Valor in ...
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.
June 4, 2014 (2014-06-04) (aged 93) Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S. Alma mater. University of Kansas. Known for. Being the last survivor of the original twenty-nine Navajo Code Talkers from World War II. Awards. Congressional Gold Medal. Chester Nez (January 23, 1921 – June 4, 2014) was an American veteran of World War II.
Glendale, California, U.S. Alma mater. University of Southern California. 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 ...
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 ...
Joseph Oklahombi (May 1, 1895 - April 13, 1960) was a Choctaw soldier in the United States Army during the First World War. [1] He was the most-decorated World War I soldier from Oklahoma. One of the Choctaw code talkers, he served in Company D, First Battalion, 141st Regiment, Seventy-first Brigade of the Thirty-sixth Infantry Division during ...