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After Pentagon temporarily purges references to Native American Code Talkers’ contributions to World War II, here’s a look back at their impact

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SPOKANE — As part of what an aide to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly called a “digital content refresh,” many references on the Pentagon’s website that honored Native Americans who used their ancestral language as an unbreakable code to help American forces in the Pacific Theater of World War II were purged last week. Read more...

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