# Happy Navajo Code Talkers Day! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 14, 2011, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-navajo-code-talkers-day/592656 "2011-08-14T05:04:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![trapezoidal\_jellyfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6f9a4e/32.png) [@trapezoidal\_jellyfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trapezoidal_jellyfish)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-navajo-code-talkers-day/592656/1 "2011-08-14T05:04:03Z")
Not mundane or pointless, but didn’t know where else to put this. August 14 is [National Navajo Code Talkers Day](http://www.navajocodetalkers.xn--org-5m0a/)! From the above website: > [@](#): > > Known as Navajo Code Talkers, they were young Navajo men who transmitted secret communications on the battlefields of WWII. At a time when America’s best cryptographers were falling short, these modest sheepherders and farmers were able to fashion the most ingenious and successful code in military history. They drew upon their proud warrior tradition to brave the dense jungles of Guadalcanal and the exposed beachheads of Iwo Jima. Serving with distinction in every major engagement of the Pacific theater from 1942-1945, their unbreakable code played a pivotal role in saving countless lives and hastening the war’s end. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-navajo-code-talkers-day/592656/2 "2011-08-14T08:49:48Z")
I can just hear the Germans listening in: “What in der frigg???” 🙂 I saw a special on the code talkers and was fascinated and thought to myself “Enigma _this_, mommy-friggers!” 🙂 Quasi