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The Real ‘Windtalkers’ of WWII: The Story of a Navajo Code Talker
Albequerque, New Mexico – A Navajo veteran talks about his experience as one of the real ‘windtalkers’ of the Second World War — as a Navajo code talker.
Thomas Begay is just one of the estimated 170,699 vets residing in New Mexico.
And he is one of the few Navajos who were recruited during the Second World War to be a Navajo code talker. They communicated orders through the radio using their own language and, according to Begay, formulating other codes using their own native tongue.
Thomas Begay was able to serve both in the Second World War and in the Korean war as a Navajo code talker.
Navajo code talkers symbolHe even said that he was able to serve in the Battle of Iwo Jima for 38 days, from February 17 to March 27, 1945. Serving in the 5th Division of the US Marines, he, along with his unit, was the one responsible for making and relaying encrypted codes.
These secret messages were very important as they monitored