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Navajo Code Talker dead at age 82 (FOX 11 Tucson) |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Merril Sandoval’s family always knew he was a Marine. But it would be decades before they found out he was a member of the elite Navajo Code Talkers, a group of Navajo Marines who confounded the Japanese during World War II by transmitting messages in their native language.
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