Chester Nez
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"Chester Nez", and Pfc. Carl Gorman in Saipan, June 1944

"Chester Nez" was an American veteran of World War II. He was the last original Navajo people/Navajo code talker who served in the United States Marine Corps during the war.

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When we went into the Marine Corps, we didn't know what it was that we were going to do.

All of the 29 Marines that I went in [with], we got together and made a code in our own language. There were over 400 or 500 words that we made up at that time. We memorized them and everything was up here.

And nobody knew. The Japanese pulled all of their hair out trying to decipher the code. But it's one of the hardest languages to learn, that's why it was never decoded or deciphered.