Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Kinsel: devised by a cohort of Navajo, the code substituted a Navajo word for each English alphabet letter and for common ...

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 ...

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 ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) – A Navajo Code Talker, whose words are inscribed on congressional medals given to his group and who fought to have a World War II comrade recognized for his service, died ...