During World War II, the Marine Corps recruited Navajo men to help create a code using the Diné language. The code stumped Japanese troops, and the Code Talkers are often credited with helping ...

But after three days of public outcry and lobbying from the Navajo Nation president and the tribal council to the White House and the Pentagon ... webpages about the service of Navajo code talkers ...

In response, the department has scrambled to restore ... the Pentagon on Wednesday restored some pages highlighting the crucial wartime contributions of Navajo Code Talkers and other Native ...

John Ullyot, the Pentagon’s top spokesman for the first ... with its request that it remove articles on Robinson, the Navajo Code Talkers, and Native American Marine Ira Hayes, who helped ...

The Pentagon has faced questions from lawmakers, local leaders and citizens over the removal of military heroes and historic mentions from Defense Department websites and social media pages.

But due to the enormous size of the military and the wide range of commands, units and bases, there has been an array of interpretations of what to remove and how as part of the P ...