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Noumea
Aug 17, 1943
Photog: Salvatore Gatto, 1st Raider

JAPANESE COULDN'T DECIPHER THEIR "CODE"
Three of the Navajo Marines who served with the Marine Raiders on New Georgia as communicators, sending battlefront messages in the Navajo language, which the Japanese found impossible to decode. Left to right, they are: Private First Class Edmond John of Shiprock, New Mexico; Private First Class Wilsie H. Bitsie, Mexican Springs, New Mexico, and Private First Class Eugene R. Crawford of Chinle, Arizona.

DEFENSE DEPT. PHOTO (MARINE CORPS) #61431

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