In 1942, 29 Navajo men joined a secret U.S. Marine Corps mission. Their goal? Create an unbreakable code using the Navajo language—a language once suppressed by the U.S. government. The result was a 411-term military code that confused every Japanese code breaker during WWII. At Iwo Jima alone, six Navajo code talkers sent over 800 flawless messages. Their efforts, and those of over 400 Navajo and other Native code talkers, remained top-secret until 1968. In 2001, the original 29 were finally ho

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