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World War II Navajo Code Talker Dies at 92

A Navajo Code Talker who used his native language to confound the Japanese in World War II has died.   The Navajo Nation says Roy Hawthorne Sr. died Saturday. He was 92.   Hawthorne enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps at 17 and became part of a famed group of Navajos who transmitted hundreds of messages in their language without error.   The code was never broken.   Hawthorne had been one of the most visible survivors of the group. He appeared at public events and...


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