Episode 251: The Code Talkers, Part V: I Was a Radioman

Four of the five remaining original 29 Navajo Code Talkers receive the Congressional Gold Medal from President George W. Bush in July 2001. The Code Talker saluting President Bush is Chester Nez.

Today the Navajo Code Talkers are one of the most famous stories to come out of the Pacific Theater of the Second World War. However, following the victory they helped come to fruition, they were all sworn to silence and languished in obscurity for more than two decades before that story was finally told.