UPDATE: The 1 p.m. appearance Thursday of World War II Navajo "Code Talker" Samuel Sandoval at Grand Valley State University's Eberhard Center is by invitation only. Event planners regret there is not ...

John Kinsell, the last of the Navajo code talkers who contributed to the Allied victory in the Pacific War with Navajo-based codes, died on October 19, 2024. John Kinsel Sr., Navajo Code Talker in ...

John Kinsel, who has died aged 103 (or possibly 107), was one of the last surviving Navajo Code Talkers, recruited by the US Marines in the Second World War to baffle Japanese cryptologists by sending ...

For nearly 50 years, Kenji Kawano has been photographing the Navajo Code Talkers of World War II throughout America's southwest. "It became my life's work," Kawano said. It's a lifelong project that ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Willard Oliver was one of about 400 Navajo Indians employed by the Americans during the Pacific war to confound the Japanese by ...

The Navajo Code Talkers used their native language to help protect secret American messages from being cracked by the Japanese, and in so doing provided an invaluable contribution to the war effort.

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz — The Navajo Nation on Friday honored the men who stumped the Japanese in World War II using a code based on their Native language. A parade and ceremony took place Friday morning in ...

WINDOW ROCK, Arizona, United States—Roy Hawthorne recalls his time served during World War II with pride, effortlessly sharing his native Navajo language as he shows off how he used codes to trick the ...