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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 December 2024. Military personnel using their native languages for secret wartime communication "Codetalkers" redirects here. For the band, see the Codetalkers. For the Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain character, see list of characters in the Metal Gear series § Code Talker. Choctaw soldiers in ...
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 ...
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Nez kept his decision to enlist from his family. He and 28 other Navajos formed Recruit Training Platoon 382 at Marine Corps Base San Diego in May 1942. The 29 who graduated from boot camp, including Nez, were then assigned to the Camp Elliot, California, where they were tasked with creating a code for secure voice tactical (battlefield) communications.
He was among the original 29 Navajo code talkers who devised the original code. During the war, he served in battles at Guadalcanal, Saipan, Tarawa, and Tinian. [1] Brown trained as a welder and was a master carpenter as well as a cabinetmaker. [1] He served as a member of the Navajo Tribal Council from 1962 to 1982.
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 ...
Merril L. [1] Sandoval (April 18, 1925 [2] – February 9, 2008) was an American Navajo World War II veteran and a member of the Navajo Code Talkers, [2] a group of United States Marines who transmitted important messages in their native Navajo language in order to stop the Japanese from intercepting sensitive material. [3]
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.