Image 1 Comanche boys in uniform at Albuquerque Indian School, New Mexico 1882. Photograph by W.H. Llewellyn Courtesy of the National Museum of the American Indian
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Image 2 Choctaw telephone squad 1917-18. Photograph by Dr. Joseph K. Dixon Courtesy of the William Hammond Mathers Museum, Indiana University
Image 3 Navajo code talkers (and cousins) Preston and Frank Toledo at Ballarat, Australia, July 7, 1943. Photo courtesy of the National Archives
Image 4 Navajo code talkers Corporal Henry Bahe Jr. and Private First Class George H. Kirk on the island of Bougainville, South Pacific, December 1943. Photo courtesy of the National Archives
Image 5 These Marines on Saipan landed with the first troops to hit the beach, 1944. Photo courtesy of the National Archives
Image 6 Eight Meskwaki Indians from Tama, Iowa, become code talkers with the U.S. Army's 34th Infantry Division, February 21, 1941. Photo courtesy of the State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City
Image 7 Navajo code talkers at Shiprock Fair, Shiprock, New Mexico, Oct. 7, 1989. Photograph by Kenji Kawano
Image 8 President George W. Bush presents the Congressional Gold Medal to four of the original 29 Navajo code talkers, Washington, D.C., July 26, 2001. Photograph by Paul Morse/ The White House
Image 9 Paul Edward Tso Sr. (Navajo), Many Farms, Arizona, 1988. Photograph by Kenji Kawano
Image 10 Johnnie Alfred (Navajo), Tuba City, Arizona, 1989. Photograph by Kenji Kawano
Image 11 Paul H. Blatchford (Navajo), Tuba City, Arizona, 1989. Photograph by Kenji Kawano