Larry Foster remembers the story his father told of a brief silence during the Battle of Iwo Jima. Sgt. Harold Yazzie Foster ...

What did the Navajo Code Talkers do in WWII? The Navajo Code Talkers have long been honored as heroes of World War II, with more than 400 young Navajo men enlisting in the U.S. Marines and creating an ...

The Navajo Code Talkers have long been honored as heroes of World War II, with over 400 young Navajo men enlisting in the U.S. Marines and creating an unbreakable code based on the Navajo language.

Chester Nez was one of the original code talkers. He was in his late 80s, when he co-wrote the book, Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir by One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII.

FILE - Navajo Code Talker Thomas Begay, left, shakes hands with Ron Enderle, right, a U.S. Marine veteran from the Korean War era, at the Arizona State Navajo Code Talkers Day ceremony, Aug. 14 ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Samuel Sandoval, one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers who transmitted messages in World War II using a code based on their native language, has died.

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. - One of the few remaining Navajo Code Talkers who used their native language to confound the Japanese in World War II has died.

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — John Kinsel Sr., one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers who transmitted messages during World War II based on the tribe’s native language, has died. He was 107.

The U.S. Marine Corps began its own program in 1941, primarily recruiting Navajo from the American Southwest. Eventually, more than 400 Navaho code talkers would serve with the marines.

At least 10 articles containing information about the Code Talkers has disappeared, according to Axios. Late last year one of the last Navajo Code Talkers, John Kinsel, died at 107.

Among those alarmed to hear of the missing Navajo Code Talker webpages was Peter MacDonald, 96. He and Thomas H. Begay are the only two Navajo Code Talkers still living today.