He was believed to be about 78. Billison and other Navajo Marines, called the Code Talkers, used the code and their native language to communicate troop movements and orders, developing a secret ...

CROW AGENCY — Tribal, state and military officials on Friday presented Congressional Gold Medals posthumously to four Crow veterans for their service as Code Talkers during World War II.

They are known as the code talkers, and they have a special place in Sandy Winneshiek’s heart. “These veterans risked their lives to support the United States, and they weren’t even citizens ...

John Kinsel Sr., one of the last Navajo Code Talkers who served in WWII, dies at 107 “Mr. Kinsel was a Marine who bravely and selflessly fought for all of us in the most terrifying circumstances ...

When he was just 16 years old, Benson had enlisted as a marine and joined the ranks of the Navajo Code Talkers. The Code Talkers was a group created by the US military as part of a World War Two ...

“We want to tell the story, demonstrate it, show it off,” said the 85-year-old Little from Crystal, New Mexico, and president of the Navajo Code Talkers Association. Chevron Mining President ...

Among the speakers were descendants of Navajo Code Talkers, the Marines who used their ancestral language to create an unbreakable code during World War II, a Navajo woman veteran and Michael ...

With his red garrison cap pulled snug above his weathered brow and his hands gently resting over silver-and-turquoise ...