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DOE Office of Legacy Management Recognizes National Navajo Code Talkers Day
August 15, 2020
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 -- The Department of Energy's Office of Legacy Management issued the following news:

National Navajo Code Talkers Day, which occurs on August 14, formally recognizes the unique World War II contributions of Native American soldiers who served as elite cryptographers, encoding and transmitting messages using a complex Navajo language-based code that was never broken by Japanese forces in the Pacific.

Established by President Ronald Reagan, Nation . . .

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