Aug. 14 is Navajo Code Talkers Day, a date President Ronald Reagan dedicated in 1982 to "all members of the Navaho Nation and to all Native Americans who gave their special talents and their lives so ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Navajo Code Talkers played crucial role in World War II, creating an "unbreakable code" that remains the only code unbroken by an enemy. It took decades before anyone knew they existed. Of the 420 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — John Kinsel Sr., ...

William Tully Brown, one of the last remaining members of the Navajo Code Talker program during World War II, died on Monday at age 96, according to the Navajo Nation. Brown was one of about 400 ...

Navajo Code Talkers Day was established in 1982 through a presidential proclamation by President Ronald Reagan and it's noted each Aug. 14. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed legislation in 2020 to make ...

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 ...