Navajo code talker John Kinsel, Sr. celebrated a major milestone earlier this year — his 106th birthday. Who were the World War II Navajo Code Talkers? During World War II, the U.S. Marines selected a ...

PHOENIX – It’s been 80 years since the first Navajo Code Talkers joined the Marines, transmitting messages using a code based on their then-unwritten native language to confound Japanese military ...

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 ...

Understand the role of the code talker during World War II. Discover how a Native language served as an unbreakable “secret” code and weapon against the enemies. The teacher will begin by telling the ...

In his acclaimed 2005 novel, prolific author Joseph Bruchac, winner of the Native Writers Circle of the Americas’ Lifetime Achievement Award, brings to life the extraordinary story of the Navajo code ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Samuel Sandoval, one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers who transmitted messages in World War II using a code based on their native language, has died. Sandoval died ...

One of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers in the United States, Samuel Sandoval, has died. He was 98. During World War II, Sandoval was a Navajo Code Talker who transmitted messages using his ...

Talk of World War II's American Indian code talkers has got one Mannford man remembering. Serving as a guard for a Navajo code talker during World War II, Gene Gordon said he's happy to see his fellow ...

Samuel Sandoval, one of the Navajo Nation's heroic WWII code talkers, died on Friday at a hospital in Shiprock, New Mexico Samuel Sandoval, one of the Navajo Nation's heroic WWII code talkers, has ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Samuel Sandoval, one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers who transmitted messages in World War II using a code based on their native language, has died. Sandoval died late ...