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Their code confounded Japanese military cryptologists and is credited with helping the US win the war

Sandoval was one of the hundreds of Navajos who were recruited from the vast Navajo Nation to help transmit messages in World War II for the Marine Corps. Only three are still alive today.

Samuel Sandoval, one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers who transmitted messages in World War II using a code based on their native language, has died. Sandoval died late on Friday at a hospital in Shiprock, New Mexico, his wife, Malula Sandoval, said on Saturday. He was 98. Hundreds of Navajos were recruited from the vast Navajo Nation to serve as Code Talkers with the US Marine Corps. Only three are still alive: Peter MacDonald, John Kinsel Sr and Thomas Begay. The Code Talkers took par...

Sandoval was one of the hundreds of Navajos who were recruited from the vast Navajo Nation to help transmit messages in World War II for the Marine Corps. Only three are still alive today.

Samuel Sandoval, one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers who transmitted messages in World War II using a code based on their native language, has died.

Samuel Sandoval, one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers who transmitted messages during World War II using a code based on their native language, was 98.

Sandoval was one of the hundreds of Navajos who were recruited from the vast Navajo Nation to help transmit messages in World War II for the Marine Corps. Only three are still alive today.

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Creating a place to remember the Code Talkers — almost all have died in the 70-plus years since the wars conclusion — near the Arizona border still requires tens of millions of dollars for completion, and proponents worry bureaucratic and turf issues could keep the facility from becoming a reality.

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