Tag: 1943
Unbreakable: Remembering the Code Talkers
Keith Hill passed away yesterday at the age of 87. He was president of the Navajo Code Talkers Association and Congressional Silver Medal recipient. At 17, he joined the Navajo Code Talkers, a group of men who used their Native American language to communicate and coordinate the movements of Marines in the Pacific Theater during World [...]
Posted by Hilary on January 5, 2012, under - World War II.
Tags: 1943, Adam Jevec, Amphibious Corps, code, Code Talkers, Encryption, Fort Wingate, General Vogel, Iwo Jima, Japanese, Marine, Navajo, Navajo code Talkers, NM, Pacific, Pacific Fleet, Philip Johnston, secret code, US Marine Corps, World War II, WWII
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The few, the proud, the letter-writers to the Marines
In 1943, you wrote a letter to President Roosevelt. In 2011, the National Archives featured your letter on YouTube! How would you feel? L. J. Weil feels pretty good, actually. “Wonderful! It’s great to be honored this way,” he said when National Archives staff reached him at his home in Lousiana. Weil’s letter to the [...]
Posted by Hilary on January 12, 2011, under - World War II, Letters in the National Archives.
Tags: 1943, Add new tag, army, L. J. Weil, MArines, mascot, Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt, ROTC, Special Forces Green Beret, Weil, World War II
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