The last of the Navajo military coders died
In Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Wednesday at the age of 93, Chester Nez is the last surviving Navajo code talker. This was reported by The Los Angeles Times.
Nez was a member of a group of 29 Indians who were engaged in the transfer of Navajo ciphers during World War II, who played a crucial role in the delivery of data to the US military. Chester was one of the first Navajo recruited during the war.
“As far back as I can remember, the Navajo people have always been warriors,” Nez said in an interview. “It was an honor for us to defend the house from the enemy.”
The Navajo Code was based on a unique 26-letter Native American alphabet. The Navajo language is extremely difficult to learn, and 68 years ago there was no fixed set of grammatical rules, making it almost impossible to master it in a short time.
The first group of Indians began working as codebreakers in 1942 at the Pendleton base in California. They called themselves “wind talkers.” The advantage of using the Navajo language was that its speakers could negotiate over the radio, while their meaning remained inaccessible to the enemy.
In 2002, director John Woo made the feature film Windtalkers, telling the story of Native American radio operators to audiences around the world.
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