Our Fathers, Our Grandfathers, Our Heroes the Navajo Code Talkers of World War II July 28, 2009

This exhibit traces the story of, and is a tribute to, the famed United States Marine Corps Navajo Code Talkers. A pilot group of twenty-nine volunteers developed and tested the original code, based on the Navajo language, in 1942. Proven fast, accurate and completely baffling to the Japanese, the Marine Corps recruited nearly 400 more Navajos to utilize the encryption in the transmission of critical communications throughout the Pacific theater. The ingenuity of the Navajo code, and the bravery of the Navajo Marines, greatly helped in the effort to win the war in the Pacific. This traveling exhibition is produced and circulated by the Circle of Light Navajo Educational Project, Gallup, New Mexico.