Samuel Sandoval, one of the four remaining Navajo Code Talkers who helped the U.S. win the war against Japan in the Pacific during World War II, has died at 98.
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Samuel Sandoval, one of the last members of the Navajo Code Talkers who encrypted critical U.S. messages duringNavajo Code Talkers famously used language based on the Navajo Nation's native tongue to transmit messages regarding Japanese troop placements and movements during U.S. Marine assaults throughout the Pacific. The Navajo language was unwritten at the time and U.S. enemies had virtually no means of deciphering the code.
Sandoval was among four remaining code talkers still alive today, from the hundreds who had been recruited during the war. The three others who are living include Peter MacDonald, John Kinsel Sr. and Thomas H. Begay. Sandoval's wife, Malula, announced his death to the Associated Press on Saturday. He died at a hospital near his home in New Mexico.FILE - In this 2013 photo, Navajo Code Talker Samuel Sandoval talks about his experiences in the military in Cortez, Colo. Sandoval, one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers who transmitted messages in World War II using a code based on their native language, has died at age 98. Sandoval died late Friday, July 29, 2022, at a hospital in Shiprock, N.M.
"Sam always said, 'I wanted my Navajo youngsters to learn, they need to know what we did and how this code was used and how it contributed to the world,'" she said Saturday."That the Navajo language was powerful and always to continue carrying our legacy."
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