Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order
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Mar 17, 2025 - Erin Alberty
Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order
https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2025/03/17/navajo-code-talkers-trump-dei-military-websites-wwii
A two-man team of Navajo code talkers attached to a Marine regiment in the Pacific relay orders over the field radio using their native language. The Navajo language was a particularly effective code during World War II, as it is not a written language and few people understand it.
A two-man team of Navajo code talkers attached to a Marine regiment in the Pacific relay orders over the field radio using their native language. Photo: Corbis via Getty Images
Articles about the renowned Native American Code Talkers have disappeared from some military websites, with several broken URLs now labeled "DEI."
Why it matters: From 1942 to 1945, the Navajo Code Talkers were instrumental in every major Marine Corps operation in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
They were critical to securing America's victory at Iwo Jima.
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How it works: The Defense department's URLs were amended with the letters DEI, suggesting they were removed following President Trump's executive order ending federal diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
The Internet Archive shows the deleted Army pages were live as recently as November, with many visible until February or March. None are shown with error messages until Trump took office.
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Choctaw soldiers flummoxed German troops during World War I's deadly Meuse-Argonne Offensive.
At Utah Beach, Comanche troops created terms that didn't exist in the language: Bombers were "pregnant airplanes," tanks were "turtles" and Adolf Hitler was "Po'sa taiboo" — "Crazy White Man."........................
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