Long unrecognized because of the continued value of their language as a security classified code, the Navajo code talkers of World War II were honored for their contributions to defense on Sept. 17, 1992, at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C.
It is a good thing that he was in the Marine Corps, or no one would have ever heard of him and his fellow Indian, radio operators.
Long unrecognized because of the continued value of their language as a security classified code, the Navajo code talkers of World War II were honored for their contributions to defense on Sept. 17, 1992, at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C.
You can say that again.
A group of young men from the Comanche tribe, mostly from southwestern Oklahoma, did the same type of duty in Europe that the Navajos did in the Pacific. The Comanche Code Talkers communicated in the Comanche language, of course.
They got little publicity.
They made the mistake of being in the Army, I guess.