The United States' Navajo code secured victories at major turning point battles and remained unbroken by the end of World War II. But it wasn't a series of random, encrypted characters — it was a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A statue of a Navajo Code Talker is proudly displayed at the Navajo Veterans Memorial Park in Window Rock, Ariz. (Photo/Navajo ...

WINDOW ROCK — It took Larry Foster 20 years to thoroughly research the history of the Navajo Code Talkers, an elite set of Diné Marines who used their language to create the famous unbreakable code ...

Chester Nez, the last of the 29 original Navajo Code Talkers who served in the Pacific Theater during World War II, died Wednesday in Albuquerque. He was 93. The Code Talkers created the only unbroken ...

Aug. 14 is National Navajo Code Talker Day, an annual celebration recognizing the Code Talkers who served with the U.S. Marine Corps in the Pacific theater during World War II. The designation was ...

Navajo code talker John Kinsel, Sr. celebrated a major milestone earlier this year — his 106th birthday. Who were the World War II Navajo Code Talkers? During World War II, the U.S. Marines selected a ...

NOW. OUR DRIVE RUNS THROUGH THE 21ST. AS WE KNOW, NAVAJO CODE TALKERS PLAYED A VITAL ROLE DURING WORLD WAR TWO. AND AS WE CELEBRATE NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH, SASHA LENNINGER EXPLAINS HOW THEY ...

PHOENIX (AP) — The Pentagon restored some webpages highlighting the crucial wartime contributions of Navajo Code Talkers and other Native American veterans on Wednesday, days after tribes condemned ...

The Marine Corps has removed more than a dozen videos, photos and stories about Navajo Code Talkers as part of an ongoing Trump administration purge of policies, programs and materials that highlight ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Navajo Code Talkers played crucial role in World War II, creating an "unbreakable code" that remains the only code unbroken by an enemy. It took decades before anyone knew they ...

Kathryn Hooker (left) and her daughter, Ruth Hooker, next to the display honoring the original Choctaw code talkers in World War I. Among them were Kathryn’s grandfather (Ruth’s great grandfather) ...