| 词条 | Joe Kieyoomia |
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| name = Joe Kieyoomia | birth_name = Joe Lee Kieyoomia | birth_date = {{Birth date|1919|11|21}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1997|02|17|1919|11|21}} | birth_place = | death_place = | placeofburial = San Juan County, New Mexico | placeofburial_label = | image = | caption = | nickname = | allegiance = {{Flagdeco|United States|1912|size=23px}} United States of America | branch = {{army|United States}} | serviceyears = | rank = Sergeant | unit = 200th Coast Artillery | battles = World War II
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}}Joe Kieyoomia (November 21, 1919 – February 17, 1997) was a Navajo soldier in New Mexico's 200th Coast Artillery unit who was captured by the Imperial Japanese Army after the fall of the Philippines in 1942 during World War II. Kieyoomia was a POW in Nagasaki at the time of the atomic bombing but survived, reportedly having been shielded from the effects of the bomb by the concrete walls of his cell.[1] The Japanese tried unsuccessfully to have him decode messages in the "Navajo Code" used by the United States Marine Corps, but although Kieyoomia understood Navajo, the messages sounded like nonsense to him because even though the code was based on the Navajo language, it was decipherable only by individuals specifically trained in its usage.[1] Kieyoomia is notable for having not only survived the Bataan death march and related internment and torture in a concentration camp, but also being a hibakusha (survivor of an atomic bomb blast). The capture of the Philippine IslandsThe surrender of Bataan would hasten the fall of Corregidor, a month later. Without this stand, however, the Japanese might have quickly overrun all of the U.S. bases in the Pacific. Bataan forced them to slow down, giving the allies valuable time to prepare for conflicts such as the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway which followed closely thereafter. Ultimately, Kieyoomia, along with more than 60,000 Filipino and 15,000 American prisoners of war were forced into the infamous Bataan Death March. Prisoner of warInitially tortured because his captors thought he was Japanese-American (and therefore a traitor), Joe Kieyoomia suffered months of beatings before the Japanese accepted his claim to Navajo ancestry. He survived the Death March that killed thousands of starved U.S. and Philippine soldiers. When the "Navajo Code" had the Japanese baffled, Kieyoomia was questioned and then tortured, although he could only understand bits and pieces of what trained Navajo Code Talkers were saying; the code was so sophisticated that he eventually told the Japanese that it sounded like nonsense to him. Kieyoomia was not trained as a code talker and did not know about the code. He was stripped naked and forced to stand for hours in deep snow until he talked. When he was finally allowed to return to his cell, a guard shoved him, causing the soles of his feet to tear as they were frozen to the ground. After surviving the prison camps, the "hell ships" and the torture, Kieyoomia was a prisoner in Nagasaki when that city was the target of the second atomic bomb dropped by the U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF). Kieyoomia survived the attack, saying he was protected by the concrete walls of his cell. After 3½ years as a prisoner of war, he was abandoned for three days after the bombing, but says a Japanese officer finally freed him. {{clear}}See also
References1. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.thepeoplespaths.net/articles/navcode.htm|title=How Effective Was Navajo Code? One Former Captive Knows|publisher=News from Indian Country|date= August 1997|accessdate=December 20, 2014}} External links
|url=http://www.savannah.chatham.k12.ga.us/Students/Native+American+Heritage+Month/November+5th+-+Code+Talkers.htm |title=The Code Talkers |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080101000000/http://www.savannah.chatham.k12.ga.us/Students/Native%2BAmerican%2BHeritage%2BMonth/November%2B5th%2B-%2BCode%2BTalkers.htm |archivedate=2008-01-01 |deadurl=yes |df= }}
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