Jimmie Begay, WWII Navajo Code Talker, dies
Photo credit: AP | Jimmy Begay of Ariz., a member of the U.S. Marine Corps World War II Navajo Code Talkers Association, salutes the flag as he along with the Colorado Children's Chorale rehearse the National Anthem and the Pledge of Allegiance inside the Pepsi Center in Denver. (Aug. 25, 2008)
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WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. -- Another Navajo Code Talker has died.
Thurmon Begay says his father, Sgt. Jimmie Begay of Sawmill, died Wednesday after a fall. He was 86.
Begay was one of about 420 Navajos trained to transmit messages in a code based on the then-unwritten Navajo language. The Code Talkers sent thousands of messages without error on Japanese troop movements, battlefield tactics...
