Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 14 is Navajo Code Talkers Day, a date President Ronald Reagan dedicated in 1982 to "all members of the Navaho Nation and to ...

As young marines, Peter MacDonald and Thomas Begay transmitted top secret military messages using their native language. It was an undercover mission that changed U.S. intelligence operations forever.

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 ...

During World War II, the U.S. Marine Corps used Navajo speakers to transmit fast, secure tactical messages across the Pacific ...

Eighty years ago, as the sea swayed him from side to side on an attack vessel heading towards Iwo Jima, Thomas Begay started to feel afraid. “On the ship, they said: ‘get your last scrap of steak and ...

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 ...

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 ...

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Kenji Kawano was hitchhiking on the Navajo Nation when Carl Gorman pulled over to give him a lift. During the drive, Kawano, then 23, explained that he’d arrived in the U.S. two ...

Peter MacDonald Sr., 96, said he felt relieved. As one of the two last living Navajo code talkers who sent indecipherable messages that helped the United States win World War II, he had been upset ...