These men were the first of the Navajo Code Talkers. However, according to a Facebook post by the Southern Navajo Nation News, it was on this day, 78 years ago that they swore the oath of enlistment.

The Meskwaki tribe of Iowa was among 25 Native American tribes that received the Congressional Gold Medal for their World War II service as “code talkers” during a ceremony at the U.S. Capitol ...

Navajo Code Talker networks were used at Iwo Jima ... By 2001 President George W. Bush presented Gold Congressional Medals to the original 29 Code Talkers. But only five members were still alive ...

President Ronald Reagan designated August 14 National Navajo Code Talkers Day in honor of the American Indians who joined the Marine Corps in World War II and lent their language to the crypto ...

Oct. 20 (UPI) --John Kinsel Sr., one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers who sent coded messages for the U.S. military ...

In later years, members of Choctaw, Navajo and other tribal nations ... the Choctaws and other Indian soldiers who were Code Talkers a Gold Medal. The law was signed in 2008 by the President ...