code talkers. During the battle on Iwo Jima, they conveyed and decoded 800 messages without error in the first 48 hours of the operation. Were it not for the Navajos, the Marines would never have taken Iwo Jima, Maj. Howard Conner, the leading Marine signal officer at Iwo Jima, wrote in a memo.
Date: Jun 07, 2014
Category: U.S.
Source: Google
Chester Nez, last of WWII's Navajo code talkers, dies at 93
talkers. They were crucial to the campaign on Iwo Jima, conveying and decoding 800 messages without error in the first 48 hours of the operation. "Were it not for the Navajos, the Marines would never have taken Iwo Jima," according to a memo by Maj. Howard Conner, a 5th Marine Division signal officer.