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 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 ...
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 ...
SEVEN NEWS. THEY PLAYED A CRUCIAL ROLE DURING WORLD WAR TWO, AND NOW ONLY TWO NAVAJO CODE TALKERS ARE STILL ALIVE. AS WE CELEBRATE NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH. SASHA LENNINGER INTRODUCES US TO ONE ...
The Department of Defense and U.S. Army have removed articles on the Navajo Code Talkers and their contribution to America's victories during World War II from some websites amid President Donald ...
One of the last Navajo World War II Code Talkers has died at the age of 107. John Kinsel Sr. was one of hundreds from the Navajo tribe recruited by the U.S. military in the 1940s to transmit messages ...
Zonnie Gorman grew up hearing her father’s stories about World War II and the work he did on the Pacific front. As she got older she realized his work was not only pivotal to the Allied victory but a ...
When Peter McDonald, Fleming Begaye and Thomas Begay joined the elite fraternity of Navajo Code Talkers during World War II, they had no idea what they were getting into. That was by design. The ...
SEVEN NEWS. NAVAJO NATION OUTRAGED AFTER MENTIONS OF CODE TALKERS WERE REMOVED FROM SOME GOVERNMENT WEBSITES. ALIYAH CHAVEZ TODAY LEARNING THEY’LL LIKELY BE RESTORED AND WHAT OFFICIALS ARE NOW ...
This is the seventh of seven articles highlighting the grand marshals of the 2023 Phoenix Veterans Day Parade. PHOENIX — At just 16 years old, Thomas Begay enlisted in the United States Marine Corps ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – In honor of Native American Heritage Month, a local company gave employees a rare opportunity to hear firsthand from one of the last surviving Navajo Code Talkers. Story ...
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The El Pueblo Motor Inn, or what’s left of it anyway, sits vacant behind a chain-link fence along Route 66, its stucco walls clad in weathered sheets of construction tarp. At first ...