During the Second World War, the US Marine Corps recruited Navajo Native Americans for a unique task. They were to devise a signaling code that the Japanese would find impossible to break. Historians have credited the work of these code talkers as a significant factor in the US victory in the Pacific. Belatedly recognized for their contribution to the war effort in 2001, the Navajo code talkers are remembered today as one of the most important Marine Corps units operating in the Pacific Theater. But how exactly was the code devised, and what was the most famous battle the Navajo took part in?
Click through this gallery and decipher the remarkable story of the Navajo code talkers.