Episode 250: The Code Talkers, Part IV: Navajo, Not Japanese

Code Talkers Preston Toledo (left) and his cousin, Frank Toledo, on Australia in July 1943. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Marine Corps Archives.

For the Marine Corps, the nightmare scenario was a Navajo code talker falling into the hands of the enemy. However, for the code talkers themselves, an equally grim prospect was being mistaken for the enemy by their fellow Marines.