Nation Navajo Code Talker Alfred K. Newman, among the last of the World War II heroes, has died January 16, 2019Dennis Wagner, Arizona RepublicComments Off on Navajo Code Talker Alfred K. Newman, among the last of the World War II heroes, has died Alfred K. Newman was among 400 Navajos who helped defeat the Japanese during World War II by developing an unbreakable code using the Dine language.