The story of the Code Talkers is an amazing one. Code talkers participated in every campaign in the Pacific from 1942 until the end of the war, sending and receiving messages vital to the war effort that the Axis were never able to crack. The complex Navajo language proved too difficult for the best codebreakers the Germans and Japanese put to the task of breaking it, and the Code Talkers proved so valuable that they were used well through the Cold War. Only in the past couple of decades have they started to receive the recognition they deserve.When the towers of the World Trade Center fell on Sept. 11, 2001, Clarence Wolf Guts asked his son to call the U.S. Department of Defense to see if the country needed his code talking abilities to find Osama Bin Laden.
Wolf Guts was in his late 70s at the time, so his son, Don Doyle, did not make the call, but said the request personified his father's love of country.
Happy hunting, Wolf Guts.
That is all.
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3 comments:
Yet another one from the Greatest Generation gone...
I think he was Sioux, not Navajo.
They used code a well as speaking in Navajo, which was a good idea as the Japanese did have one or two people that knew Navajo.
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