Johnson Housewood, a Navajo and native of Arizona, is a Notable burial at https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/santafe.asp.  He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in September 1942. PFC Housewood was a Navajo Code Talker in the Pacific Theater during World War II. In 2001, the Navajo Code Talkers were presented with the Congressional Silver Medal. Housewood's honor was posthumous. He was killed in action in Guam July 21, 1944.  https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/151597287.pdf.
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