Navajo Code Talkers 1

The Navajo code talkers were Navajo Indians that created a special code that not even the Japanese could break. This code was designed specifically help the U.S. army send and receive transmissions to tell them were to go and fight, tell them how many troops died, and give them coordinants on were to drop bombs on the enemies. These reluctant heros devoted their lives to protect the code in war. The Navajo indians helped in world war 2 with their un-breakable code nobody could intercept U.S. military transmissions any longer. The Navajo indians played a big role in the winning of the war. The Navajo indians entered the war by the government asking for their help with the langauge.The man that came up with the idea to base the code on their langauge was named Phillip Johnston. He was the son of a protestant missionary. He also spent most of his childhood and learned the navajo's ways on the Navajo reservation. The Navajo code talkers served in six different marine divisions from the period of 1942-1945.

A Navajo code talkers life: Merril Sandoval

Merril Sandoval was a very hard worker in the war. His mother died when he had just begun first grade in 1931. He grew up on the east side of the Navajo eservation. He was born in New Mexico on the reservation in 1925. He learned english for the first time there. He enlisted into the marine corps in the year 1943. After he finished boot camp he was sent to Camp Pendleton in the 2nd and 5th marine divisions in Hawaiian, Saipan, Iwo Jima, and an occupation of Japan. After he served in the war he was discharged as a Corporal. He finished high school at Sherman Institute and Albuquerque Indian school. After he decided to learn the trade of machinist at Haskell Institute. He worked as a machinist for 15 years with Bendix Aviation in Kansas City, Missouri and Air Research in Pheonix, Arizona. He returned to the reservation in 1964, and worked for the police department, D.N.A legal services, and as a tribal advocate and interpreter for the tribal legal courts. He and his wife went to Tuba City, Arizona were they raised two sons and three daughters. His older brother Samual Sandoval was also a code tlker.