RIP: Navajo Code Talker Allen June

[MrBern]

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/09/09/20100909arizona-code-talker-allen-dale-dies.html

Allen Dale June, one of the 29 original Navajo Code Talkers who confounded the Japanese during World War II by transmitting messages in their native language, has died. He was 91.



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The Code Talkers took part in every assault the Marines conducted in the Pacific from 1942 to 1945. They sent thousands of messages without error on Japanese troop movements, battlefield tactics and other communications critical to the war's ultimate outcome.

Several hundred Navajos served as Code Talkers during the war, but a group of 29 that included June developed the code based on their native language. Their role in the war wasn't declassified until 1968.



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[HepKitty]

RIP

I don't know why but I was thinking just a few days ago about how not well known the code talkers are but how important they were in the war (saw the show a long time ago on the history channel). thank you for sharing this :eusa_clap

 

[LocktownDog]

R.I.P.

 

[Jeff M]

Just came across the article.
Thank you for your service, Sgt. June.