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A ***. Code Talkers

AMERICAN HEROES
One of the best kept American military secrets, Code Talkers were United States Native-American soldiers during World Wars I and II, Korea, and Vietnam who used their Native-American languages to transmit coded tactical messages. Those deployed as Code Talkers were of thirty-three Indian nations: Assiniboine, Cherokee, Cheyenne and Arapaho, Cheyenne River Sioux, Chippewa, Choctaw, Comanche, Cree, Creek, Crow, Crow Creek Sioux, Dakota Sioux, Ho-Chunk (Wisconsin), Hopi, Kiowa, Laguna Pueblo, Lakota, Lower Brule Sioux, Menominee, Meskwaki, Muscogee, Muscogee-Seminole, Nakota, Navajo, Oglala Sioux, Oneida (Wisconsin), Osage, Pawnee, Pima-Papago, Ponca (Oklahoma), Pueblo of Acoma, Rosebud Sioux, Sac and Fox (Iowa), St Regis Mohawk, Santee Sioux, Seminole (Oklahoma), Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, Standing Rock Sioux, Tonto Apache, Tlingit and Haida, White Mountain Apache, Winnebago, and Yankton Sioux.
Code Talkers received no recognition until the operation's declassification in 1968. Not even the soldiers' family members knew of their loved ones' involvement until after declassification.
The actual term "code talker" wasn't coined until World War II.
The code was never broken.
"My language was my weapon." ~ David E Patterson (Navajo), 4th Div, US Marine Corps, World War II (still living as of May 2016).

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PFC Perry Allen

22 Feb 1927 – 21 Apr 2003

Farmington, San Juan County, New Mexico, USA

John Augustine

15 Oct 1924 – 21 Dec 1983

Farmington, San Juan County, New Mexico, USA

Lewis Ayze

5 Nov 1927 – 5 Sep 2012

Bloomfield, San Juan County, New Mexico, USA

No grave photo

Woody Joe Bahe

18 Nov 1914 – 28 Dec 1982

Fort Defiance, Apache County, Arizona, USA

PFC John Bear King

13 Aug 1911 – 2 Sep 1949

Sturgis, Meade County, South Dakota, USA

Plot info: Section E Site 1394

CPL Ned David Becenti

4 Mar 1921 – 11 Oct 2002

Santa Fe, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, USA

Plot info: 23 0 309

Roy Lewis Becenti

12 Jan 1914 – 28 May 1970

Crownpoint, McKinley County, New Mexico, USA

Sidney “Navajo Code Talker” Bedoni

10 Mar 1923 – 8 Jun 2014

Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA

Jerry ClasChee Begay Sr.

8 Dec 1924 – 26 May 2008

Farmington, San Juan County, New Mexico, USA

No grave photo

Sgt Jimmie M. “Navajo Code Talker” Begay

1926 – 1 Feb 2012

Apache County, Arizona, USA

Plot info: Family Plot: (7 miles north of Fort Defiance, along Red Lake Road)

PFC Paul Begay

22 Sep 1923 – 11 Jan 1944

Manila, Capital District, National Capital Region, Philippines

Plot info: B, Row 9, Grave 131

No grave photo

Walter H. Begay Sr.

2 Mar 1913 – 21 Mar 2005

Saint Michaels, Apache County, Arizona, USA

CPL Wilson Begay

3 May 1925 – 15 May 1998

Fort Defiance, Apache County, Arizona, USA

PVT Wilmer Belinda

13 Feb 1913 – 16 Mar 1998

Gallup, McKinley County, New Mexico, USA

CPL Harrison Lee Benally Sr.

3 Jun 1926 – 16 Sep 1998

Farmington, San Juan County, New Mexico, USA

Harry Benally

3 Aug 1925 – 26 Sep 2000

Farmington, San Juan County, New Mexico, USA

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