Smitty Character Analysis in Code Talker

Smitty is a fellow marine and close friend of Ned’s. He is originally from Boston, and his real name is John Smith. Though Ned doesn’t know it at the time, Smitty has been assigned to keep a close watch on Ned to make sure he isn’t mistaken for an enemy soldier by other marines.

Smitty Character Timeline in Code Talker

The timeline below shows where the character Smitty appears in Code Talker. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.

...They wear ceremonial clothing and perform some dances and songs. Corporal Radant and Ned’s friend Smitty even try to join in the dancing. They close the program by singing a Navajo... (full context)

On Bougainville, Ned spends a lot of time with Smitty, a friend of his from Camp Elliott. Long after the war, Ned learns that Smitty... (full context)

One day, Smitty points out a brown-haired lieutenant getting out of a boat and asks Ned if he’d... (full context)

...talkers, but instead he’s “ill at ease,” worrying about his friends, like Georgia Boy and Smitty, who are still fighting. He no longer thinks of those men as white strangers, but... (full context)

...The ultimate objective is to reach Japan itself. Ned is reunited with Georgia Boy and Smitty in the operation’s Southern Task Force. Their first objective will be the island of Guam. (full context)

The Guam landing takes place on July 21. Ned and Smitty have to climb and dig in on a steep bluff. The marines are boxed in... (full context)

...remains silent, as if dead. Ned is part of the first landing wave, along with Smitty. He and Smitty feel as if they are one another’s good luck charms. (full context)

...the island itself, the loose, deep black sand makes it nearly impossible for Ned and Smitty to scramble up Mount Suribachi. When they reach the top, they realize that the Japanese... (full context)

...gunpowder, and—worst of all—burning skin. Ned remembers hastily eating his steak sandwich as he and Smitty keep shoveling black sand out of their foxhole. (full context)

...seemed new and threatening about the jungle now seems beautiful to him. He dreams that Smitty is shaking him awake in the foxhole, telling him that the Japanese have retreated and... (full context)