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Navajo Code Talkers Thomas Begay and Peter MacDonald Sr., two of the four surviving Navajo Code Talkers, told us about their heroic service to the country.
There were 50,000 Navajo tribe members in 1942. About 540 Navajos served as Marines as of 1945 and approximately 400 of them were trained as Code Talkers – mission that remained secret until 1968.
Thanks to their skills, hundreds of messages were sent and received with speed and accuracy. Even though Japanese were skilled code breakers, they were never able to break it.
More than a dozen Navajo Code Talkers were killed in action and more than two dozen of them were wounded.
| Date Taken: | 11.11.2021 |
| Date Posted: | 02.02.2022 09:08 |
| Category: | Video Productions |
| Video ID: | 829654 |
| VIRIN: | 111621-N-VZ034-0010 |
| Filename: | DOD_108786442 |
| Length: | 00:02:57 |
| Location: | MARYLAND, US |
| Downloads: | 3 |
| High-Res. Downloads: | 3 |
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