Lloyd Oliver was one of the original 29 Navajo Code Talkers of the U.S. Marine Corps.
Lloyd Oliver was born in 1923 on the Navajo Nation to Howard and Olive “Ollie” Oliver. He attended Fruitland Day School before enrolling in the boarding school at Shiprock, New Mexico.
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Lloyd Oliver dropped his schooling and enlisted in the Marines. After training in California, Oliver was sent to the Pacific. As a Navajo Code Talker, he used his native Navajo language to transmit codes for the Marine Corps.
In the picture, he operates a field radio while attached to a Marine artillery regiment in the South Pacific. Corporal Oliver also was a sniper and a highly regarded scout.
