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Chester Nez, one of 29 Navajo Code Talkers whose language skills thwarted the Japanese military in World War II, is shown in a November 2009 photo. Nez died on Wednesday.

Last Of The Original Navajo ‘Code Talkers’ Dies At 93

By: Scott Neuman | NPR
Posted on: Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Chester Nez, one of the original 29 Navajo men who used their native language to confound the Japanese military during World War II, died of kidney failure on Wednesday.

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