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captain queeg

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43. I think it was Guadalcanal which didn't really make sense.

Reply to red dog 1 (Reply #35)

Sat Feb 27, 2021, 08:53 PM

Feb 2021

I actually met a guy who participated in the wind talkers. He wasn’t navaho but had grown up there and could speak the language. That was about 40 yrs ago and few people in the general population had ever heard of it but I’ve always been real interested in WWII.

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