Navajo code-talkers Corporal Henry Bake, Jr., (left) and Private First Class George H. Kirk (right), serving with a Marine Signal Unit, operate a portable radio set in a clearing they've just hacked in the dense jungle close behind the front lines on Bougainville Island in Papua New Guinea during World War II in December 1943.

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Size: 3546px × 5289px
Location: Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea
Photo credit: © Alpha Historica / Alamy / Afripics
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