Navajo code talker shares his story

[Yuma Sun]  A surviving Navajo code talker who served in the Pacific theater of World War II was in Yuma Saturday to share his story during the Spirit of Yuma Military Festival....During the early months of the war, Japanese intelligence had broken every code the U.S. had devised, giving them a great advantage in military strategy.“We were in bad shape, so the Marines decided to look for another code,” Toledo said.That is when civilian Philip Johnston realized the Navajo language could be turned into an unbreakable code.  More...