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 ...
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.
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 ...