Native American Heritage Month
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth shines a light on our Native American Marines, including those who served proudly as #NavajoCodeTalkers.
To learn more about Native Americans in the Marine Corps, you can visit the Navajo County
Library District website:
http://www.navajocountyhistory.org/navajolife.asp?tpm=1_3
From their website we found the following:
"Privates First Class participated in the Marine Corps Pacific Division Rifle and Pistol matches at Puuloa Point, then Territory of Hawaii. Both were full-blooded Native American Marines. Both Marines fired a total score of 545 out of a possible six hundred, but Yazzie fired a higher score on the second day and placed third while Nez placed fourth. Yazzie received a gold medal, Nez the first silver medal. Presentations were made by Brigadier General H.D. Linscott, Commanding General Marine Garrison Forces, Pacific. Both Marines represented the First Marine Division in these matches.
Photographed in January 1943."
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