Last week, Alfred K. Newman, one of the last of the Navajo Code Talkers, died in New Mexico at age 94. Here is his story, Alfred Newman.
About a year ago, President Trump honored Code Talkers at the White House. The Navajo Code Talkers used their native language to invent a secret military code. Their Navajo language was tricky and was not written down. So the US Marines recruited them to help transmit information. They created more than 200 new Navajo words for military terms and committed them to memory. “I studied on my own at night,” Joe Hosteen Kellwood, one of the code talkers, said of his training. “You had to memorize all the words at the time, 211 words. They were long words. I spelled it. I learned.”The code was vital to the US victory in the Pacific in World War II. The Navajo code proved much faster than the encrypting machines being used at the time. You can read more about the Navajo Code Talkers here.
Alfred Newman helped people. He is amazing because he showed that one person can participate in something that can change the world no matter what you look like or how you act.
Wow!Alfred Newman was a great man!He was so great because he taught people 211 long words in Navajo.
I had know idea that the Navajo code talkers made Over 400 words!!!!
Alfred Newman was a great man,All the Navajo code talkers were and are!!!
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Alfred Newman must have been very smart because he taught the other Navajo Code Talkers 211 long words. All the Navajo Code Talkers must have been smart because they had to learn another language. I learned they used the Navajo language because it is very tricky. Thank you for leading us to victory, Alfred!
How did they memories that many words in a language that doesn’t even have a written dictionary, they must have been taught very well.
They had to memorize 211 without a written dictionary