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 Department of Defense and U.S. Army scrubbed articles on the Navajo Code Talkers and their contribution to America's victories during World War II, removing the information from websites as part ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
WINDOW ROCK, AZ (AZFamily) — Leaders in the Navajo Nation are speaking out after several military websites removed mention of the Navajo Code Talkers, an indigenous group that helped the United States ...
PHOENIX – 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...