https://padlet.com/2008002128/8y37c4d1e49s Made with the help of a typing monkey en-us 2019-02-08 16:13:40 UTC 2019-02-08 16:15:25 UTC hello@padlet.com 2008002128 https://padlet.com/2008002128/8y37c4d1e49s/wish/329271103 2019-02-08 16:15:44 UTC https://padlet.com/2008002128/8y37c4d1e49s/wish/329271103 2008002128 https://padlet.com/2008002128/8y37c4d1e49s/wish/329273560 Alfred k. Newman was born rehoboth, new mexico, on the Navajo nation.]]> 2019-02-08 16:19:41 UTC https://padlet.com/2008002128/8y37c4d1e49s/wish/329273560 2008002128 https://padlet.com/2008002128/8y37c4d1e49s/wish/329275752 With the attack on pearl harbor in mind, he joined the marine Corps on March 26, 1943, and became one of over 400 code talkers.]]> 2019-02-08 16:23:09 UTC https://padlet.com/2008002128/8y37c4d1e49s/wish/329275752 2008002128 https://padlet.com/2008002128/8y37c4d1e49s/wish/329279384 2019-02-08 16:29:13 UTC https://padlet.com/2008002128/8y37c4d1e49s/wish/329279384 2008002128 https://padlet.com/2008002128/8y37c4d1e49s/wish/329280622 2019-02-08 16:31:38 UTC https://padlet.com/2008002128/8y37c4d1e49s/wish/329280622 2008002128 https://padlet.com/2008002128/8y37c4d1e49s/wish/329282147 In November 1943, Newman was part of the Guadalcanal campaign, before he spent a month on bougainvillea island. ]]> 2019-02-08 16:34:31 UTC https://padlet.com/2008002128/8y37c4d1e49s/wish/329282147 2008002128 https://padlet.com/2008002128/8y37c4d1e49s/wish/329283425 2019-02-08 16:36:48 UTC https://padlet.com/2008002128/8y37c4d1e49s/wish/329283425 2008002128 https://padlet.com/2008002128/8y37c4d1e49s/wish/329284053 Newman was honorably discharged with the rank of corporal  in December 1945.]]> 2019-02-08 16:37:49 UTC https://padlet.com/2008002128/8y37c4d1e49s/wish/329284053 2008002128 https://padlet.com/2008002128/8y37c4d1e49s/wish/329287545 He worked as an ammunition inspector at fort wingate and later at an open-pit mine overseeing blasting at Kirtfield feild]]> 2019-02-08 16:43:38 UTC https://padlet.com/2008002128/8y37c4d1e49s/wish/329287545 2008002128 https://padlet.com/2008002128/8y37c4d1e49s/wish/329288657 Newman was married to Betsy Eleanor, his wife of 69 years.  They had five children. ]]> 2019-02-08 16:45:16 UTC https://padlet.com/2008002128/8y37c4d1e49s/wish/329288657 2008002128 https://padlet.com/2008002128/8y37c4d1e49s/wish/329289442 Alfred k. Newman died at age 94 at the veterans hospital in Albuquerque.]]> 2019-02-08 16:46:35 UTC https://padlet.com/2008002128/8y37c4d1e49s/wish/329289442 2008002128 https://padlet.com/2008002128/8y37c4d1e49s/wish/329291816 Alfred K. Newman was a United States Marine, best known for serving as a Navajo code talker during World War II. Born in Rehoboth, New Mexico, on the Navajo Nation, Newman and his fellow native students were not allowed to speak the Navajo language in school.]]> 2019-02-08 16:50:33 UTC https://padlet.com/2008002128/8y37c4d1e49s/wish/329291816 2008002128 https://padlet.com/2008002128/8y37c4d1e49s/wish/329294592 2019-02-08 16:55:30 UTC https://padlet.com/2008002128/8y37c4d1e49s/wish/329294592 2008002128 https://padlet.com/2008002128/8y37c4d1e49s/wish/329294926 2019-02-08 16:56:12 UTC https://padlet.com/2008002128/8y37c4d1e49s/wish/329294926 2008002128 https://padlet.com/2008002128/8y37c4d1e49s/wish/329295477 During World War II, Newman served from 1943-45 in the 1st Battalion, 21st Marine Regiment and 3rd Marine Division and saw duty at Bougainville Island, Guam, Iwo Jima, Kwajalein Atoll, Enewetak Atoll, New Georgia and New Caledonia.]]> 2019-02-08 16:57:17 UTC https://padlet.com/2008002128/8y37c4d1e49s/wish/329295477 2008002128 https://padlet.com/2008002128/8y37c4d1e49s/wish/329295796 Newman, who used his native language to outsmart the Japanese in World War II by helping to create an uncrackable code, died at a nursing home in Bloomfield, New Mexico.

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