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Wow! Please do publish anything else you find out about him.

-Nick

Hi Nick - I was way impressed too.  But unlike you, I couldn't even get the word Wow out:)

Am reluctant to post info on anyone w/o their prior permission so will wait till I hear from contact again.

There is a lot of info on the Code Talkers tho if you're interested.  There were Cherokee Code Talkers also.  The link is in there someplace.  Really interesting stuff.

Ann

Yes the Code Talkers were Native Navajo. They used a word from their language and matched it with a letter from our alphabet, much like the NATO Phonetic alphabet (i.e: Alpha = A, Baker = B). They also used code words, for example, turtle in Navajo was 'tank'. Unlike other, more obvious, codes, the Japanese could not decode this. The code was kept so classified, the heroes of the Navajo were not recognized until the early to mid 90s.

Sorry, bit of a history geek here.

Cool research .  Bit of a history major - ah Geek here myself.  Still do lots of reading on it today.

Ann

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