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thedrifter
10-16-09, 08:54 AM
Navajo Code Talker dies
The Associated Press
Posted : Thursday Oct 15, 2009 8:15:17 EDT

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Another Navajo Code Talker has died.

Family members say 88-year-old Willard Varnell Oliver died Wednesday at a Veterans Administration hospital in Prescott. He had been in declining health for the past two years.

Oliver was part of an elite group of Navajo Marines who confounded the Japanese during World War II by transmitting messages in their native language.

Oliver is at least the fifth Code Talker to die since May.

Ellie