1.6K views · 36 reactions | "My elders...they asked me...did you bring back the feeling of war?...I thought about that for many years." Navajo Code Talker Albert Smith reflects on his life & #WWII service. Watch Saturday at 2pm ET on C-SPAN 3. | American History TV | Facebook

The Navajo Code Talkers are an integral part of this nation’s history. 29 Navajo men initially selected by Marine Corps leadership, used their unique and complex native language to formulate a code that remained unbreakable to the enemy in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Fighting in almost every major battle, the approximate 400 Code Talkers were able to translate messages in as few as 20 seconds as opposed to the normal 30 minutes with existing code-breaking machines. In 1982, Presiden

Navajo Code Talker Peter MacDonald National Navajo Code Talker Day 2020 Address

Navajo Code Talker and Marine Veteran Thomas Begay received a COVID-19 vaccine shot at a VA medical center on Feb 2. The Code Talkers were a group of 29 Navajo men recruited by the U.S. Marine Corps in WWII to develop unbreakable codes based on their Indigenous languages | NowThis

241K views · 8.2K reactions | "It's wrong, it's ugly, it's nasty, but...