Navajo Code Talker Alfred K. Newman dead at 94

Fox News ^ | January 16, 2019 | Travis Fedschun

[EveningStar]

Alfred K. Newman, one of the last surviving Navajo Code Talkers, died at the age of 94 on Sunday in New Mexico.

Newman, who used his native language to outsmart the Japanese in World War II by helping to create an uncrackable code, died at a nursing home in Bloomfield, New Mexico.

“Navajo Code Talker Alfred Newman was a hero, and he stood amongst giants,” tribal President Russell Begaye told the Arizona Republic. “We will be forever grateful for his contributions and bravery, as well as that of each and every one of our Navajo Code Talkers. They are national treasures.”

[EveningStar]

Wikipedia

[gaijin]

Carrier = frog
tank = turtle

They had to use Navajo words they already knew for concepts which didn’t exist in the Navajo language.

[rjsimmon]

Semper Fidelis, Marine. Report to your next duty station: Guarding the streets of Heaven.

[Gay State Conservative]

RIP to this outstanding man!

I read once that the code talkers had a code name for Hitler in the Navajo language that translated to "Crazy White Man".

[mabarker1]

I’ll wager that most People don’t even know the Story about what the Code Talkers did that helped bring WWII to an end.

[rrrod]

RIP Marine

[SkyDancer]

Required reading when I was home schooled.

[Fiddlstix]

Requiescat in pace

[laplata]

Hand salute.

RIP Marine. Simper Fi.

I attended many Marine Corps League events in the Four Corners area with my WW II Marine Corps uncle and he knew many of the Code Talkers. I got chills when shaking their hands.

[Mollypitcher1]

I’ll wager that most people do not know that the FIRST CODETALKERS were CHOCTAW during WORLD WAR !. A few other tribes also used their languages during the same war for messages the Germans couldn’t understand but the Choctaw formalized their code terms.

[rxsid]

"I’ll wager that most People don’t even know the Story about what the Code Talkers did that helped bring WWII to an end."

Especially since there are now tens of millions of foreign nationals living in the country, many illegally, who do not share a common history with this country.

[SENTINEL]

[oh8eleven]

RIP and Semper Fi ...

[left that other site]

RIP, Hero.

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

Thank you for sharing that - I didn’t know that.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

The movie with Nicholas Cage was surprisingly good, considering the lunatic, psychotic roles Cage usually stars in.

[dfwgator]

The movie with Nicholas Cage was surprisingly good, considering the lunatic, psychotic roles Cage usually stars in.

[ObozoMustGo2012]

For a minute I thought the article was referring to THIS Alfred Neuman....

[Nifster]

It is done in beauty

[doorgunner69]

Some of us in bootcamp were curious about the several Navaho in our platoon. Seems they were totally infused with their elders’ service in the Marines and would have it no other way but serve. I was 17 and knew nothing about the Code Talkers.