USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Philip Johnston offered his services as a staff sergeant to help develop the code talker program. On October 2, 1942, Johnston enlisted and began training his first class in November and spent the remainder of the war training additional Navajo recruits.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The idea to use the Navajo language as the basis of a secure radio code was proposed to the Marine Corps by Philip Johnston, a veteran of World War I who had spent much of his childhood on the Navajo Reservation where his parents worked as missionaries.

Detailed explanation-4: -The four men awarded were Navajo Code Talkers – John Kinsel Sr., Thomas Begay, Samuel Sandoval, and Peter MacDonald. The code talkers played an essential role in transmitting sensitive information on battlefields leading to the end of the World War II.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.