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Joe Hosteen Kellwood, one of the Navajo code talkers during World War II, has died at age 95. 
 
The Navajo Nation Council confirmed his death, hailing the services and sacrifices made by Navajo warriors. 
 
Kellwood died Monday at the Veterans Hospital in Phoenix, according to an obituary posted at a local mortuary. He served in the First Marine Division and fought during World War II in the Pacific front, seeing battle in Cape Gloucester, Peleliu and Okinawa. 
 
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