92-year-old World War II Navajo Code Talker dies in Utah

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – A Navajo man who helped stump the Japanese during World War II using a code based on his native language has died in Utah.
Ernest Yazhe, 92, died of renal failure in suburban Salt Lake City on Tuesday, his daughter Melissa Yazhe told The Salt Lake Tribune.
Born in Naschitti, New Mexico, Yazhe joined the U.S. Marines when he was 19 years old. He became one of the hundreds of Code Talkers who played a vital combat role by transmitting battlefield messages in an unbreaka