A TRIBUTE TO THE CODETALKERS

Bougainville Dec 1943 Photog: Hanks NAVAJO MARINES - (Front Row) Privates Earl Johnny, Kee Etsicitty, John V. Goodluck and Private First Class David Jordan. (Back row) Privates Jack C. Morgan, George H. Kirk, Tom H. Jones and Corporal Henry Bahe, Jr., Navajo Indians, are serving with a Marine Signal Unit.
OFFICIAL U.S. MARINE CORPS PHOTO USMC #69896


Noumea Aug 17, 1943 Photog: Salvatore Gatto, 1st Raider JAPANESE COULDN'T DECIPHER THEIR "CODE" Three of the Navajo Marines who served with the Marine Raiders on New Georgia as communicators, sending battlefront messages in the Navajo language, which the Japanese found impossible to decode. Left to right, they are: Private First Class Edmond John of Shiprock, New Mexico; Private First Class Wilsie H. Bitsie, Mexican Springs, New Mexico, and Private First Class Eugene R. Crawford of Chinle, Arizona. DEFENSE DEPT. PHOTO (MARINE CORPS) #61431