01/15/2019
“Newman was among 400 Navajos who helped defeat the Japanese during World War II by developing an unbreakable code for military transmissions using the Dine language. The Code Talkers have been celebrated in books, movies and poems for their vital role in the war, their courage in combat and the unusual encryption system that stymied enemy intelligence.”
Alfred K. Newman, one of the last World War II Navajo Code Talkers, has died at age 94.