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Throughout the year, CMV will highlight each month with a Congressional Gold Medal awardee.

On National Navajo Code Talker Day, we celebrate the tenacity and remember the courage of the code talkers during World War II.

We’re proud at NCA to begin our celebration of National [...]

The Navajo code remains the only spoken code never to be deciphered.

Native American Code Talkers played a vital role in both World War I and World War II.

Of the 400 Navajo Code Talkers who served during WWII, only four are still living. Marine Corps Veteran Peter MacDonald is one of them, and continues to share his experience as a Navajo Code Talker.

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Joe Vandever was drafted into the Marine Corps to serve as a Navajo Code Talker during World War II.

The Code Talkers used native languages to send military messages before World War II. Navajo, which was unwritten and known by few outside the tribe, seemed to fit the Corps’ requirements. They took their language and developed a “Type One Code” that assigned a Navajo word to each English letter. In addition to being unbreakable, the new code also reduced the amount of time it took to transmit and receive secret messages.

Happy birthday, U.S. Marine Corps, from Navajo code talker and Marine Veteran Thomas Begay.

Photo caption: This image shows the 29 original Code Talkers, [...]

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Marine Corps Veteran Arthur J. Hubbard Sr., who served as a leader of the Navajo Code Talkers in World War II.