Photograph of Navajo Indian Code Talkers Preston Toledo and Frank Toledo

Photograph of Navajo Indian Code Talkers Preston Toledo and Frank Toledo

Native American Heroism

Original Caption: Private First Class Preston Toledo (left) and Private First Class Frank Toledo, cousins and full-blooded Navajo Indians, attached to a Marine Artillery Regiment in the South Pacific with relay orders over a field radio in their native tongue. Photographer: Ashman.

Department of Defense. Department of the Navy. U.S. Marine Corps. 9/18/1947-

National Archives, Photographs of Navajo Indian "Code-Talkers" in the U.S. Marine Corps, 1943 – 1948, Record Group 127: Records of the U.S. Marine Corps, 1775

7/7/1943

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