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Essentially, to use navajo language as a code. marine corps recruited 29 young navajos. not telling them what they are being recruited for because this was a top secret operation. they were just asked, do you want to join the marines? you want to fight the enemy? come join the marines. so they volunteered. >> peter mcdonald was one of the navajo marines. with him at the white house is fleming beday, the oldest veteran of world war ii and wounded in the battle in fact pacific and spent a year in a naval hospital. also at the white house, thomas begay in the battle of i wo ji

War ii, the enemy was breaking every military code that was being used in the pacific. this created a huge problem for strategizing against the enemy. eventually a suggestion was made in early 1942, february '42 essentially, to use navajo language as a code. marine corps recruited 29 young navajos. not telling them what they are being recruited for because this was a top secret operation. they were just asked, do you want to join the marines? you want to fight the enemy? come join the marines. so they volunteered. >> peter mcdonald was one of the