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An estimated amount of 400 Navajos enlisted in the  program

Many were underage and lied about their age.

Unknown to the Navajo Code Talkers, there were bodyguards placed on them.

A Navajo man was tortured by the Japanese. They wanted him to brake the code. He was not able and would not brake the code for the Japanese.

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The Navajo Code was considered a type one code because it had to substitute Navajo words for English words and letters.

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https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/n/navajo-code-talker-dictionary.html

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https://rezinate.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/navajocodetalkers.jpg

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Thirty Navajos were enlisted into the pilot project that would create the code. One dropped out and left twenty-nine to create the code. They were the ones who created the code and took it to war. So, they were coined with the nickname, "Original Twenty-nine."(Although there were three Navajo Marines that had helped with the process.)

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"We were not only signalmen. We were riflemen, machine gunners, everything--wherever we were needed, that's where we went."
-Jimmy King, Sr.

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"All I thought when I went in the Marines was going to give me a belt of ammunition, and a rifle, a steel helmet, and an uniform. Go and shoot some of those Japanese.That's what I though; but later on they told us differently, you know different style, purpose of why they got us  in."
-Chester Nez, National Museum of the American Indian interview, 2004

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The Navajos mission was declassified in 1968.

In 1982, President Reagan certificate of Recognition and announced August 14 Navajo Code Talker Day.

President Clinton signed law that awarded Congressional Gold Medals to the "original 29" in 2000.

George W. Bush present medals to the four surviving Code Talkers in July 2001 (“Navajo Code Talkers and the Unbreakable Code”, Central Intelligence Agency).

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Philip Johnston is credited for coming up with the idea of using Navajos as messengers and initiated the idea to the Marine Corps's program"(1). In 1942, Johnston came up with the idea using the Navajo language as code after "reading a newspaper article about an armored division in Louisiana attempting to come up with another code using Native American languages"(“Navajo Code Talkers and the Unbreakable Code”, Central Intelligence Agency).