CREE CODE TALKER reveals the role of Canadian Cree code talker Charles 'Checker' Tomkins during the Second World War. Digging deep into the US archives it depicts the true story of Charles' ...
The United States' Navajo code secured victories at major turning point battles and remained unbroken by the end of World War II. But it wasn't a series of random, encrypted characters — it was a ...
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Kenji Kawano was hitchhiking on the Navajo Nation when Carl Gorman pulled over to give him a lift. During the drive, Kawano, then 23, explained that he’d arrived in the U.S. two ...
Eighty years ago, as the sea swayed him from side to side on an attack vessel heading towards Iwo Jima, Thomas Begay started to feel afraid. “On the ship, they said: ‘get your last scrap of steak and ...
The Marine Corps has removed more than a dozen videos, photos and stories about Navajo Code Talkers as part of an ongoing Trump administration purge of policies, programs and materials that highlight ...
Peter MacDonald Sr., 96, said he felt relieved. As one of the two last living Navajo code talkers who sent indecipherable messages that helped the United States win World War II, he had been upset ...
During World War II, Harvey Jacobs and Mark Jacobs Jr. were sailors serving in the Pacific Theater. Richard Bean served in the South Pacific and Robert “Jeff” David Sr. saw action in the Philippines.