CNN

Just two Navajo Code Talkers remain alive. Here’s what they want America to know

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 ...
Los Angeles Times

One man is preserving the legacy of the code talkers, America’s secret weapon in WWII

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 ...
The Washington Post

Anger, then relief after Pentagon restores Navajo code talker webpages

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 ...
The Morning Sun

In Arizona, a fading Route 66 motel hides a story of the Navajo Code Talkers

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The El Pueblo Motor Inn, or what’s left of it anyway, sits vacant behind a chain-link fence along Route 66, its stucco walls clad in weathered sheets of construction tarp. At first ...
USA Today

Finding the missing link in the Native Alaskan code talker mystery

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.