USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Marine Corps leadership selected 29 Navajo men, the Navajo Code Talkers, who created a code based on the complex, unwritten Navajo language. The code primarily used word association by assigning a Navajo word to key phrases and military tactics.

Detailed explanation-2: -Most people have heard of the famous Navajo (or Diné) code talkers who used their traditional language to transmit secret Allied messages in the Pacific theater of combat during World War II.

Detailed explanation-3: -His experience growing up with Navajo language and culture is what led him to suggest it be used as a military code, noting that the language was unknown among other tribes and the public. Johnston went to the Naval Office in Los Angeles, California, and was referred to Major James E.

Detailed explanation-4: -John Kinsel Sr. 1, 1946. Kinsel was awarded the purple heart on April 11, 1989, for wounds he received in action at Iwo Jima on March 2, 1945. He received a congressional silver medal for his service as a Navajo Code Talker in 2001. Read more about Kinsel and his experiences as a Navajo Code Talker.

Detailed explanation-5: -It is estimated that between 375 and 420 Navajos served as code talkers. The program was highly classified throughout the war and remained so until 1968.