Editor's Note: The invasion, occupation and liberation of Guam had a lasting effect on the island's people, government and institutions. Each week leading up to the 75th anniversary of Guam's ...
Navajo code talker John Kinsel, Sr. celebrated a major milestone earlier this year — his 106th birthday. Who were the World War II Navajo Code Talkers? During World War II, the U.S. Marines selected a ...
Aug. 14 is National Navajo Code Talker Day, an annual celebration recognizing the Code Talkers who served with the U.S. Marine Corps in the Pacific theater during World War II. The designation was ...
Thirty-eight years ago, President Ronald Reagan designated August 14 National Navajo Code Talkers Day, in honor of the American Indians who joined the Marine Corps in World War II and lent their ...
Swirled in cannon smoke from a 21-gun salute and washed in the applause Iwo Jima’s survivors have come to anticipate during their annual reunions at Camp Pendleton, one of the 27 veterans stood out.
Peter MacDonald Sr. is one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. On the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima, he explains what made the ...
During his time as a Navajo Code Talker, Samuel F. Sandoval remembers a Marine following him throughout his service. "He was always by me and with me all the time. I didn't mind," Sandoval said. He ...
President Ronald Reagan designated August 14 National Navajo Code Talkers Day in honor of the American Indians who joined the Marine Corps in World War II and lent their language to the crypto effort ...
Alfred K. Newman, one of the last of the Navajo Code Talkers, has died in New Mexico at age 94. Newman was among 400 Navajos who helped defeat the Japanese during World War II by developing an ...
President Donald Trump, right, meets with Navajo Code Talkers Peter MacDonald, center, and Thomas Begay, left, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, Nov. 27, 2017. (Susan ...
I thought that Donald Trump’s unhinged obsession with eliminating anything he thought to be the result of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives could get no worse than dishonoring the heroes ...