5.9K views · 668 reactions | The Navajo Code Talkers are an integral...

59K views · 2.9K reactions | The Navajo Code Talkers, a group of 29 men, were recruited to create and utilize a code in their Navajo language. They were used in every major battle in the Pacific theatre. Zonnie Gorman tells the importance of remembering their stories. | HISTORY | Facebook

38K views · 1.4K reactions | This Navajo Code Talkers Day listen to Pfc. Joe Hosteen Kellwood sings the Marines’ Hymn in Navajo. Video by Hunter Helis/U.S. Marine Corps. | Stars and Stripes | Facebook

238K views · 2.1K reactions | 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 | Facebook

The Code Talkers used native languages to send military messages before World War II. Choctaw, for example, was successfully used during World War I. But the Marine Corps needed an “unbreakable” code for its island-hopping campaign in the Pacific. Navajo, which was unwritten and known by few outside the tribe, seemed to fit the Corps’ requirements. Twenty-nine Navajos were recruited to develop the code in 1942. They took their language and developed a “Type One Code” that assigned a Navajo word