Joe Hosteen Kellwood

Joe Hosteen Kellwood (August 20, 1921 – September 5, 2016) was a United States Marine, best known for serving as a Navajo code talker during World War II.

Born in Steamboat Canyon, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation, Kellwood was a carpenter. He served in the First Marine Division and served in the Pacific front, seeing battle in Cape Gloucester, Peleliu and Okinawa.^[1] He received the Congressional Silver Medal for his service. Kellwood died at the veterans hospital in Phoenix, Arizona.^[2]^[3]

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Native Americans and World War II

People	Van T. Barfoot Jerry C. Begay Samuel Nathan Blatchford Pappy Boyington John Brown Jr. Charles Chibitty Ernest Childers Thomas Claw Ernest E. Evans Edmond Harjo Roy W. Harmon Ira Hayes Gilbert Horn Sr. Philip Johnston Allen Dale June Joe Hosteen Kellwood Joe Kieyoomia Jeff King Peter MacDonald Jack C. Montgomery Joe Morris Sr. Chester Nez Lloyd Oliver Willard Varnell Oliver John N. Reese Jr. Merril Sandoval Frank Tsosie Thompson Frank Chee Willeto

Tribes	Apache Blackfeet Cherokee Chitimacha Choctaw Comanche Hopi Iroquois Lakota Menominee Meskwaki Muscogee Navajo Ojibwe Akimel O'odham Tohono O'odham Osage Pawnee Potawatomi Seminole Shoshone

Engagements	1st Philippines Solomon Islands New Guinea Aleutian Islands Gilbert and Marshall Islands Marianas and Palau Islands Normandy 2nd Philippines The Bulge Volcano and Ryukyu Islands Nagasaki

See also	Apache Scouts Arizona during World War II Castner's Cutthroats Choctaw code talkers Code talkers Eskimo Scouts Great Papago Escape Machita incident Military history of the United States during World War II New Mexico during World War II

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