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The Dane axe or long axe (including Danish axe and English long axe) is a type of European early medieval period two-handed battle axe with a very long shaft, around 0.9–1.2 metres (2 ft 11 in – 3 ft 11 in) at the low end to 1.5–1.7 metres (4 ft 11 in – 5 ft 7 in) or more at the long end. Sometimes called a broadaxe ( Old Norse ...
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 ...
Code talker. Choctaw soldiers in training in World War I for coded radio and telephone transmissions. 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 ...
Even when the code talker program was declassified in 1968, national recognition of code talkers was slow. It wasn’t until 2000 that code talkers were honored by the U.S. Congress and awarded ...
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.
The larger forms were as long as a man and made to be used with both hands, called the Dane Axe. Some axe heads were inlaid with silver designs. In the later Viking era, there were axe heads with crescent shaped edges measuring up to 45 centimetres (18 in) called breiðöx . The double-bitted axes depicted in modern "Viking" art would have been ...
Y. Beatien Yazz. Robert W. Young. Categories: Code talkers. Navajo military personnel. Navajo language. United States Marine Corps personnel of World War II. United States Marines.
That was certainly the case with Lilly, a 6-month-old Great Dane puppy who is completely unaware of just how big she really is! Lilly's mom shared a video on Monday, July 15th showing Lilly trying ...