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William Tully Brown, one of the last Navajo Code Talkers, dies at 96

By Jonas Wells
Published June 6, 2019 12:26am ET
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William Tully Brown, one of the last Navajo Code Talkers, dies at 96
William Tully Brown, one of the last remaining Navajo code talkers, died Monday at 96. Brown was one of the roughly 400 Navajos who served the U.S. Marines and Navy by using their native language to develop a code for top-secret messages during World War II. Navajo Code Talker William Tully Brown passed away yesterday […]

William Tully Brown, one of the last remaining Navajo code talkers, died Monday at 96.

Brown was one of the roughly 400 Navajos who served the U.S. Marines and Navy by using their native language to develop a code for top-secret messages during World War II.

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